By Jeremiah Urowayino
ASABA—A FORMER Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Chief Victor Ochei has called on state governors to prioritise payment of salaries, noting that it is critical to the success of any administration.
Ochei, who said this on Channels Television’s Politics Today, also urged the governors to carry out a proper auditing of workers in their states in order to plug leakages.
His words: “This is not a time to run a government as a social business. It has to be a business run on a profitable venture,” he said on Wednesday.
“Now, look at your workforce; do you actually have what you need, or you are doing it as a social service that ‘ whoever comes let us accommodate’? And there are people who are paid salaries of work they don’t do.”
The former speaker was worried that some workers were receiving salaries for the service they…
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