Plateau State Government has released the sum of Three Hundred Million Naira (N300,000,000.00) monthly to settle arrears of pensions, gratuities, and death benefits from 1986 to date.
The State Head of Service, Barrister Rauta Dakok, who disclosed this while addressing newsmen at the inter-ministerial press briefing in Jos, Plateau State, said the state government has achieved quite a lot since the inception of the Governor Caleb Muftwang-led administration, adding that part of the achievements include the immediate placement of retirees on monthly pensions and the adjustment of the salary table.
Barrister Dakok mentioned that the administration equally ensured the suspension of the inherited strike action embarked upon by workers in Plateau State and also embarked on an upward review of Hazard Allowance for Medical Doctors, Nurses, and Health Workers (CONMESS/CONHESS), including non-clinicals.
She further stated that the state government has begun the implementation of recalled workers into the mainstream civil service whose employment was initially suspended, adding that regular interface
Labour has enhanced cordial government-labor relations.
In his briefing, the State Commissioner of Education (Secondary), Hon. Mohammed Salihu Nyalun, said arrangements have been completed to give financial incentives to over 30,000 indigent students across 14 LGAs of the state worth over 1.3 billion naira to help them continue with their schooling.
Hon. Nyalun added that the state government has restored employment of 989 teaching and 200 non-teaching staff to fill existing shortages in manpower in the public schools.
“Mutfwang administration has also paid the backlog of school fees for 6 years amounting to forty million, six hundred thousand (#40,600,000=00) naira for plateau state indigenous schooling at the National Mathematical Centre Abuja. The Ministry coordinated and sent some students to participate in the marathon cross-country race in Kaduna, where they won the gold medal, three silver medals, and two bronze medals. They will represent the country in Nairobi, Kenya, in May 2024.
“Then the ministry lately created a Public-Private Partnership Department (DPPP), which is to liaise with government organisations, non-government organisations, corporate organisations, politicians, parents, teachers associations, old boys and girls of schools, Alma Mata, businessmen and women, groups, societies, etc. towards forging ways of collaboration towards improving education on the plateau and in general, as the government cannot do it alone since education for all is the responsibility of all,” he said.
In his opening remarks, the State Commissioner of Information and Communications, Mr Musa Ashoms,’s approval of the governor for the ministerial briefing highlighted the governor’s readiness to provide the tonic for the reactivation of the machinery of government in all of its departments.
Ashoms said it was the attitude that drives the vigorous activities across various sectors and across the state, turning it into a huge project site for massive infrastructural development and an incubator for robust public policy initiatives.
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