Anxiety as many Ayade aides fail to get August pay

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There is palpable anxiety and grumbling among many aides of the Cross River State governor Senator Ben Ayade as many of them are yet to get August salaries NEGROIDHAVEN has confirmed.

The payment of salaries which has since shifted from end of the month to the end of the first week of every new month since his second tenure was done on Monday 6th September for the month of August however, many aides including civil servants were not paid.

“One of my friends called me on Tuesday 7th September to ask if I had received salary alert and I said no. He then intimated me that salaries had been paid to those who get theirs via First Bank and Polaris Bank but other banks were not captured,” Adamson a Special Assistant said.

He narrated that many of those who get their pay through banks like Zenith, Access and Ecobanks have been waiting endlessly for their August salaries which have refused to showup

“We are told salaries are paid from IGR and as the money comes they pay but time is running out. Experience shows that His Excellency does not authorise the payment of arrears so if by 15th when the voucher for the month of September is produced it then means we won’t be paid”. Mercygold, another SA stated.

She said there is rumour that there is a granishe court order on the salary account which stopped further payment of salaries but that is neither here nor there.

“Nobody is telling us anything about the non-payment but for the one week shift in school resumption we would have been in trouble” She stated.

Many aides including commissioners, special advisers, personal assistants are yet to get their pay for the month of August.