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Home |   About Us |   Contact Us |   Members |   Search |   Subscribe |   Disclaimer |   THE GUARDIAN CONSCIENCE, NURTURED BY TRUTH LAGOS, NIGERIA.     Monday, August 09 2004   news   editorial/opinion   policy & politics   focus/record   business   metro   sports   homes/properties   moneywatch   media   capital market   arts     Guardian Chat Click to join the chatroom Abia councillors reject N53,000 monthly pay From Gordi Udeajah, Umuahia ELECTED councillors in Abia State comprising mostly members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said they have resolved to reject the N53,000 monthly pay offered by the state government as their salaries. Already, they have rejected their June salary, which was supposed to be their first pay, insisting to be paid N107,000, which they claimed the House of Assembly had prescribed. Besides, the N53,000 differed from what obtains in neighbouring states of Imo, Rivers and Anambra, they added. According to the councillors who met last Saturday in Umuahia, the state capital, the Revenue Mobilisation, Fiscal and Allocation Commission was empowered to determine and fix salaries of political office holders and not the executive. Addressing journalists after the meeting at Ibeku High School, their spokesman, Chief Uchegbu Ugochukwu of Ikwuano Council, said they had decided to take the matter to the state legislators. "We shall send a delegation to the state House of Assembly to solicit the members' intervention on the matter", they said. They pointed out that Abia is not so poor that it cannot afford what other states are paying. "We rejected our June salary to press our position on this matter", he added. Pointing out that council chairmen and other political office holders were getting their right dues, Mr. Tony Uzosike, secretary of Ikwuano/Umuahia Councillors' Forum, stated that the seeming discrimination needed to be looked into and remedied. "We did some campaigns to be elected and we all, with the chairmen, have the same office tenure. We have no other source of legitimate income as elected public office holders, hence we cry for justice", he added. � 2003 - 2004 @ Guardian Newspapers Limited (All Rights Reserved).  Powered by dnetsystems.net dnet�

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