Governor Babagana Zulum says his administration has paid the gratuity and other entitlements of civil servants amounting to ₦4.5 billion.

The spokesperson for the governor, Dauda Iliya, said this in Maiduguri, highlighting Mr Zulum’s achievements from 2024 to date.

Mr Iliya said Mr Zulum’s administration had also cleared all outstanding gratuity and other entitlements of retired permanent secretaries up to December 2024.

He stated that the accrued outstanding gratuity and other entitlements of these senior civil servants, which were cleared in December, totalled N1.49 billion.

The spokesperson said that was in addition to the N200 million being paid monthly by the state government to the teeming retirees.

“The governor has pledged to settle all outstanding pensions and gratuities of civil servants before the end of his tenure,” Mr Iliya said.

The spokesperson said that Mr Zulum’s administration was committed to settling all backlogs of pensions and gratuities owed to civil servants in the state before the end of its tenure.

“In the area of post-conflict recovery efforts, Zulum’s administration, in collaboration with the federal government and other partners, has repatriated 7,790 refugees from Baga Sola in the Chad Republic to the Kukawa local government area of the state.

“Similar repatriation exercises were carried out of refugees from Diffa and Bosso in the Niger Republic to the Malamfatori headquarters of the Abadam local government area.

“Each of the returnees was provided with food and non-food items as part of the resettlement package,” he said.

(NAN)