He said the backlog, amounting to N48 billion, was inherited from previous administrations.
According to the governor, the situation has caused salaries and pensions to increase simultaneously, saying that this is unacceptable to the government.
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Mr Martins called on all workers in the state not to resume at their various offices on Monday but to converge at the state government secretariat.
Mr Ngige claimed that CONUA and NAMDA were regrouped from the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for efficiency and effectiveness in the system.
