Ex-Govs Orji, Ikpeazu only 0.01% of gratuities from 2011 to 2023 – Abia Govt

Abia State Government has alleged that the past administrations of Theodore Orji and Okezie Ikpeazu paid lone 0.01 per cent of gratuities owed to workers who retired from the authorities and the section authorities systems betwixt 2011 and 2023.

According to the government, the revelation astir the 0.01 per cent outgo was contained successful a study released by a committee it acceptable up to reappraisal outstanding gratuities successful the state.

The Commissioner for Information, Okey Kanu, stated this connected Monday successful Umuahia portion briefing journalists connected the result of this week’s Executive Council gathering presided implicit by Governor Alex Otti.

Kanu said the existent authorities had commenced the outgo of gratuities owed to retirees, starting with those who retired betwixt 2001 and 2010.

According to him, the reappraisal committee established that the full outstanding gratuity liability stood astatine N61.8 billion, comprising N7.2 cardinal accumulated betwixt 2001 and 2010, N43.6 cardinal incurred betwixt 2011 and May 2023, and different N10.9 cardinal accumulated from May 2023 to August 2026.

“The reappraisal besides showed that payments made by successive administrations, peculiarly the administrations of erstwhile Governors Theodore Orji and Okezie Ikpeazu, covered little than 0.01 per cent of the gratuity owed to retirees who exited the work betwixt 2011 and May 2023...