The Anambra State Government has promised to refund all the over deducted salaries of workers who didn’t go to work on January and February Mondays as a result of the Monday”s Sit-at-home order initiated by the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB), to press home the release of it leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally from the prison.
The State Chairman of Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Chris Ogbonna, disclosed this while speaking to Journalists at St Patrick’s Cathedral Awka, on Sunday during the governor’s Thanksgiving service to end his first term and to begins his second term in office.
The Church Service presided over by Papal Nuncio to Nigeria, Archbishop Michael Francis Crotty, was well attended by top government functionaries, captains of industries, Labour unions leaders, Religion leaders, APGA supporters, among others.
Recall that the state government had in January, 2026 announced that it would begin a pro-rata payment system, with deductions from salaries of civil servants who failed to come to work on Mondays. The government also used the opportunity to announced an end to sit at home protest.
Weeks after the announcement, in one of the Mondays, it was a tale of woes among the state civil servants as they lamented huge deductions from their February salaries, as they received bank alerts for their wages.
At Jerome Udoji State Secretariat, Awka, the state capital, some workers lamented huge deductions from their salaries that did not tally with the number of Mondays they failed to show up for work.
One of the workers who pleaded to speak under anonymity said a worker in his Ministry only received N100 as payment for February, after deductions.
Reacting further on the development, the TUC Chairman while admitting to the deduction, he however, announced that the state government has promised to refund back the deducted salaries to the affected workers in the state.
According to him, I am highly pleased to inform the public that the Anambra State Government under the leadership of our solution governor, Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo has promised to refund all the over deducted salaries of all the Civil Servants and other workers who failed to go to work on Mondays during the heated period.
“The government has promised to refund the money where applicable, those of them, they deducted their salaries for failing to go to work in respect of so called “Monday sit-at-home”.
The promised came following the TUC urgent intervention and I think the government is processing it now.
The TUC in Anambra under my leadership is also using this opportunity with the press to appeal to our Solution governor to help us refund the money our members paid to the Contributing Pension Scheme operating in the state.
Ogbonna rated Soludo’s four-years achievements in all sectors of human existence to 85 percent.
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