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Address infrastructure decay, unpaid salaries, pensions, not opposition –APGA to Abia govt

ehimare ewaleifoh by ehimare ewaleifoh
January 11, 2024
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Address infrastructure decay, unpaid salaries, pensions, not opposition –APGA to Abia govt
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Address infrastructure decay, unpaid salaries, pensions, not opposition –APGA to Abia govt

The All Progressives Grand Alliance in Abia has charged the state government to focus its energy on  addressing infrastructure decay, the payment of backlog of salaries and pensions and stop persecuting the opposition party.

GoldenNewsNg gathered that the All Progressive Grand Alliance gave the charge in a statement issued in Umuahia by its Chairman, Rev. Augustine Ehiemere, and made available to journalists on Saturday.

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APGA in it’s  statement alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party-run state government has been battling with unpaid arrears of salaries and pensions, running into tens of months in different parastatal agencies.

According to APGA, the institutions include the Abia State University Teaching Hospital, Aba, which was shut down by workers over 22 months salary arrears and Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, whose workers are owed 31 months salaries arrears.

Workers of Abia State College of Education (Technical) Arochukwu are owed 33 months and Health Management Board employees are owed 33 months salaries.

In the statement, APGA argued that beyond the piling up of salary and pension arrears, the state also had infrastructure deficit and dilapidated roads in different parts of the state to contend with.

However, in his response, the Commissioner for Information, Eze Chikamnayo, described APGA as “factionalised and inconsequential in Abia“.

In the response, Chikamnayo attacked Ehiemere and the APGA lawmaker in the House of Assembly, Mr Obinna Ichita.

GoldenNewsNg recalls that Ichita (APGA/Aba South) and Ehiemere had been critical of the PDP-led government in Abia, accusing it of mis-governance.

They had at different times challenged the state government to give account of the N27 billion World Bank facility it obtained for the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Road, Ngwa Road, Obohia Road and Ohanku Road, all in the commercial town of Aba.

At the party’s news briefing on Nov. 11, Ehiemere said that nothing had been done on the roads, saying that they had deteriorated and become impassable.

He also called on the appropriate agencies of government to investigate how the World Bank fund was utilised.

Ehiemere described Chikamnayo’s statement as diversionary and failing “to address multiple and weighty issues of bad governance and poor standards of living among the Abia citizenry”.

The statement added: “It is very unfortunate, shameful and ridiculous that the state government chose to fight Ehiemere and Ichita for allegedly speaking out against bad governance.

“Chikamnayo embarked on rhetoric, instead of addressing the critical issues of unpaid workers’ salaries, pension arrears and dilapidated infrastructure.

“APGA, therefore, calls for the immediate removal and or resignation of Chikamnayo as the image maker of Abia,” adding that he was not fit for the office.

It further stated that his continued stay in office would attract more rejection of the Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu-led administration.

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