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Peter Mbah, governor of Enugu, has ordered the verification and biometric capturing of all local government workers in the state.

According to a statement by Chidiebere Onyia, secretary to the state government, the verification committee will be inaugurated on Friday.

The governor said the deadline for the verification process is February 2024, adding that any worker who fails to comply with the directive would be fired. 

“Workers are by this, expected to be on duty with their letters of appointment and schedule of duty for verification and biometric capturing,” the governor said.

“Those absent and others confirmed not to have been fulfilling the terms of their employment shall cease to be government employees.”

The government also directed all local government chairmen to submit lists of attendance to the office of the secretary to the state government through: [email protected].

On November 15, the governor announced the disbursement of cash awards — between N10,000 and N25,000 — to workers across the state, till April 2024.

“As you may be aware, since the removal of the petroleum subsidy, we have been in constant negotiation with the labour unions in the state, crafting a way forward on how we can provide palliatives to our teeming workforce,” the governor said.

“So, by the time you put a monetary value to all the social services we have provided, it will weigh well above N100,000 minimum wage.

“But in addition to that, with effect from next month (December), we are going to also make a flat payment to all categories of our workers, beginning from our local government to the primary and secondary school teachers, and civil servants. 

“We are going to categorise them and there will be a flat payment of between N10,000 and 25,000, depending on the category. That payment is going to continue till April.”