The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra state at the weekend alleged that the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA-led state government made what it described as illegal deductions from salaries of workers at source, a decision the PDP saw as an exploitative tendency.
Chairman of the party in the state, Hon. Ndubuisi Nwobu said it came to the notice of the party that deductions were allegedly being made from workers’ salaries for the recapitalization of one Ndiolu Microfinance Bank.
Nwobu, who claimed that a certain memo dated 8th March had instructed the State Accountant-General as well as the Secretary of JAAC to deduct certain percentages from workers’ salaries as their contributions to the stabilisation of the said Ndiolu Microfinance Bank, maintained that the money purportedly deducted from salaries of workers be returned with immediate effect.
But the spokesman of the Anambra State Government, Mr. C. Don Adinuba, in response to these claims and allegations, maintained that the alleged lies concocted by the PDP were a perfect example of combative ignorance trumpeting its own values.
Adinuba stated that Ndiolu Microfinance Bank was not owned by the state government and that the bank had no relationship whatsoever with the state government.
He further noted that the said microfinance bank was a private enterprise of workers in the state for those who wanted to recapitalize their bank and solely decided to raise money amongst themselves and agreed on how much each category of worker would contribute to the scheme.
According to him, representatives of workers approached the Head of Service saying that certain amount of money should be deducted from the salaries of their members at source the same way other associations and unions did theirs.
The State Information Commissioner noted that every journalist across the country paid check-off dues which was being deducted from their salaries at source; that what the Nigeria Union of Journalists did with check-off dues was what the workers of Anambra state did on their own accord without government involvement.
He stressed that there was no government input and the claim by the PDP that the scheme was an exploitative tendency was completely far from the truth.
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Adinuba also wondered why the PDP in the state did not take the matter to the leadership of the workers’ union if it really had the interest of the civil servants at heart as it claimed.
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