straight to the Office of the Accountant-General, AG, to protest the
non-payment of their two months salaries and allowances.
The legislators were also irked that workers in some ministries and
parastatals had reportedly not been paid their February and March 2015
salaries.
The lawmakers reacted angrily to the motion raised by the member
representing Onuimo state constituency, Mr. Robertson Ekwebelem, and
was seconded by the member for Ehime Mbano constituency, Mr. Kingsley
Dimaku.
Following the motion, the House resolved to meet with the
Accountant-General and the Commissioner for Finance, to ascertain why
civil servants and lawmakers were being owed their legitimate
earnings.
The obviously angry lawmakers, on arrival at the Accountant-General's
Office, were heard as they sought to know the reason their salaries
and that of civil servants remained unpaid for two months.
Vanguard, however, gathered that their trip to the
Accountant-General's Office was fruitless as the AG, Mrs. S. N. Udogu,
was said to be attending to another official assignment somewhere.
It was also gathered that Mrs. Udogu was promptly alerted of the
lawmakers' protest march and quickly scampered into safety before
their arrival.
A senior staff member in one of the state ministries toldVanguardthat
"when the trip to the AG's office failed, the legislators stormed the
office of the Commissioner for Finance, before returning to the House
to conclude the day's sitting."
--Vanguard
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