Delta LG workers face sack as Okowa advice Chairmen to reduce LG workers

The salary crisis rocking about 20,000 local government workers in Delta State appears to be getting worse as the State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has admonished Local Government Chairmen across the 25 councils to reduce their workforce or slash workers’ salaries.

Governor Okowa dropped the bomb-shell yesterday, Tuesday May 30 at Delta State Government House Press Centre, Asaba during his quarterly press briefing.

Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa

Dr. Okowa who has repeatedly said his administration is not responsible for the payment of Local Government workers, despite controlling local government monthly federal allocations by using 81% of the fund to pay primary school staff, leaving 19% for the local government councils, declared that the local government councils are over-staffed.

He said there is nothing he can do to tackle the over 10-month salary arrears of the local government workers and averred that it will be stupid on his part to employ more civil servants into the State Civil Service, already having about 60,000 workforce.

Isoko Mirror can however report that while Okowa continues to lament the huge wage bill of State and Local Government Civil Servants, he has continued to engage more Political Aides with no portfolios.