The Governor of Sokoto State, Ahmed Aliyu, has approved the payment of June salary to workers in the state beginning from Monday.
The purpose of the gesture is to make sure state employees have a comfortable Eid-el-Kabir this year.
This is stated in a statement to Governor Abubakar Bawa that was signed by the Chief Press Secretary and made available to PUNCH Online on Sunday.
According to Bawa, the payment is made to state pensioners, local government employees, and civil servants.
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The statement read, “The payment covers state civil servants, local governments and local government education authority.
“It also includes pensioners across the state.”
The statement also expressed the governor’s wishes for a trouble-free Eid-el-Kabir celebration to the whole Muslim Ummah.
The statement added that the governor, upon assumption of office has been “paying the salary of workers in the state between the 20th and 21st of every month.”