KEBBI State Governor, Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, has approved the payment of a total sum of Three Billion, Nine Hundred and Eleven Million, Four Hundred and Forty Seven Thousand, Five Hundred and Thirty Four Naira, Twenty Five Kobo (N3, 911,447,534.25K) for payment of gratuities and death benefits for all categories of beneficiaries.
This was disclosed to newsmen at a press briefing by the Kebbi State Acting Head of the Civil Service, Alhaji Safiyanu Garba Bena in Birnin Kebbi, yesterday.
According to Bena, the approval of Two Billion, Three Hundred and Sixty Million, One Hundred and Fifty Six Thousand, Eight Hundred and One Naira, Seventy Eight Kobo (N2,360,156,801.78k) is for the payment of gratuities and death benefits to beneficiaries who retired and were captured between January 1st 2023 and May 15th , 2023 or beneficiaries of those who have died in the period.
He further said that One Billion, Thirty Two Million, Two Hundred and Sixteen Thousand, Eight Hundred and Seventeen Naira, Eighty Nine Kobo (N1,032,216,817.89k) is for the payment of balances of 2017/2018 Local Government and Local Government Education Authorities, LGEAs beneficiaries, following the completion of verification by the committees.
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However, Two Hundred and Seventy One Million, Five Hundred and Twenty Two Thousand, Two Hundred and Ninety Seven Naira, Sixty Eight Kobo (N271,522,297.68k) was approved by the Governor for the payment of gratuities and death benefits to the State and Local Government beneficiaries who retired or died in 2019 but were not in the earlier payment, and later captured in the addendum provided by the Kwaido committee.
Equally, the sum of Three Hundred and One Million, Five Hundred and Fifty One Thousand, Six Hundred and Sixteen Naira, Ninety Kobo (N301,551,606.90k) has been approved for all pending cases that were hitherto not captured but subsequently verified by the Kwaido and Head of Service Committees.
Following this development, he said Kebbi State Government has fully paid the gratuities of all retirees and death benefits of those who served the State Government, Local Government and Local Government Education Authorities LGEAs, including contract workers and that of retired and those who died prior to May 15th 2023.