Rivers State Governor, Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, has said that payment of salaries should be given maximum priority in the state.
Governor Wike said this during the swearing in of 15 Local Government Caretaker Committee Chairmen who had been screened and confirmed by the State House of Assembly.
The Governor Wike charged the caretaker committee chairmen to pay the salaries of local Government workers for December 2017, January 2018 and February 2018.
He explained that the funds were not released to the immediate past council administrators because the tenures of the former councils had expired.
He said: “The payment of salaries of workers must be given priority attention. As you take over the councils , pay the outstanding three months salaries”
Governor Wike also charged the urban local government areas especially PHALGA and Obio Akpor to focus on sanitation of different suburbs. He urged the chairmen to engage youths to promote environmental sanitation.
He stated that any caretaker committee chairman involved in using council funds to service his political godfather will be sanctioned.
