Chidi Lloyd, the Emohua Local Government Chairman, says the council has released May and June workers’ salaries after an audit of the staff’s nominal roll.
This follows allegations by workers that the council has withheld two months salaries of council workers.
Speaking on Treasure 98.5 FM PortHarcourt on Tuesday,Lloyd said the payment of staff salary for the months of May and June were earlier delayed due to the irregularities in the nominal roll of the council which called for the constitution of an audit committee to ascertain the true wage bill of the local government.
According to him, legitimate council staff may not have received their salaries before the commencement of two the days public holiday.
Lloyd said his administration will not bow to blackmail and insults from ghost workers who have been criminally receiving salaries from the council.
He said that some of those receiving salaries in the council before his assumption of office are people who had already retired from civil service but corruptly remained in the council payroll.
“I have said it before that I was not elected to only pay workers salaries, we are in government to change the narrative and we must fish out all the ghost workers who have been stealing our common wealth.
“No amount of insult and blackmail on social media will make me pay salaries to ghost workers. It might cause us some pains but the right thing must be done to put our local government on the path of development.
“We must block all the holes used to steal our money so that we can save some money to execute projects for our people”. He said.
