As part of a welfare package for citizens, some governors released bonuses for workers in their states by announcing N100,000 take-home for the yuletide.
Blueprint learnt that Governor Fubara announced an N100,000 Christmas bonus for workers in the state.
The hundred thousand naira bonus was meant for all civil servants in the state ministries, agencies and parastatals.
It was the first time in a long time that the workers would be going home with huge Christmas bonuses.
The governor of Ebonyi state also approved the sum of one hundred thousand naira for the workers in the southeast state. During a ‘Renewed Hope Initiative Christmas Party’ in Abakaliki, the governor announced.
“I’m not managing local government; I’m going to have a meeting with the council chairman this evening. Every worker must get 100,000 naira from us.”
Similarly, the governor of Ogun state was another governor who approved a whopping Christmas bonus for civil servants.
The bonuses ranged from 68 per cent to a whopping 159 per cent of the basic salaries of the workers, and it covered from Level one to Level 17 of the state workers. “In monetary terms, levels 1-8 will receive N20,000 as a bonus, levels 9 and 10 (N25,000), levels 12 (N35,000), levels 13 and 14 (N40,000), levels 15 (N55,000), levels 16 and 17 (N100,000).”
