Abia Governor Slashes Pay And Travel Allowance by 50%

Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu has announced a 50% pay and travel allowance cut.

The governor made this disclosure on Monday at the Government House Umuahia, while swearing in the state’s new Head of Service, Dr. Vivian Uma.


Ikpeazu said he was deeply pained by his administration’s inability to pay salaries of workers as at when due following the dwindling federal allocation.

He said he had decided to personally identify with the suffering workers and would not lift the self imposed austerity until the salaries and allowances owed workers, some as much as six months have been paid.

The Governor, who is yet to move into the Government House, Umuahia, promised “to do everything possible” to  systematically defray the arrears of workers’ salaries.

The Abia State Governor is the fourth Governor to slash his pay to enable the state meet up with its existential demands.

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai and his counterparts in Nassarawa and Kano state both announced pay cuts earlier.

Source: PUNCH Newspapers