Sokoto state government has vowed to begin the implementation of the minimum wage in this month of January.
Governor Aminu Tambuwal revealed that at the presentation of the report by the committee on the implementation of the new minimum wage and consequential adjustments.
Tambuwal recalled that the state government had discovered a disparity in the salary data of the state civil service commission, the Ministry of Finance and the office of the Head of Service, thus took measures to harmonise all the data.
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He said his government had to conduct a wide scale verification exercise to weed out ghost workers, child workers and bogus employment offer syndicates.
The governor said the issuance of payslips to workers, was also introduced as a measure to tackle the situation.
He assured that his administration would pay all the workers owed backlogs of salary following the meticulous process of the fiscal discipline measures it embarked upon.
Earlier, The Herald reported that the Sokoto state government on Sunday disbursed N6.5 million to health facilities it engaged to offer free treatment to needy patients in the state.
The chairman, Zakkat and Endowment Commission, Malam Muhammad Maidoki told newsmen that the money was disbursed to the special committees set up by the Commission to manage the grant.
“Today like all other months, we are disbursing the sum of N6.5 million to our various partners for the treatment of needy patients across the state.
“As such, I want to urge our partners in the hospitals and pharmaceutical shops committees to remain committed to ensuring proper utilisation of the funds allocated to them,” he said.