Breaking: April salary: Zenith Bank responsible for the hardship Adamawa workers are facing – Bala Sanga
.Zenith Bank actions is to please opposition party in Adamawa
Mr Bala Sanga, Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Adamawa attributed non-payment of April salaries to workers due to activities of Zenith Bank Plc in Yola. Sanga made the explanation on Wednesday in an interview with Journalists in Yola.
Sanga also query the bank whom he claimed that the government had been taking over draft to pay salaries in the last four years of the administration. He explained that the state had not defaulted in repayment of its loans within the period under review.
He regretted why the bank instead of giving prior notice to the government why it would not grant a loan to the government. He said that the non-payment of workers’ salaries was worrisome to the government, adding that the hardship hit harder on Muslim who were observing Ramadan fast.
“The nonpayment of April salaries to Adamawa workers is worrisome to us as a government.” Mind you, Adamawa is a civil service state and we are in the month of Ramadan, one could imagine how the non-granting of loan by Zenith bank for payment of salaries have a negative effect on the people. “The bank has the prerogative to grant or not to grant loans to costumers, but in our case is unique.
” The government has been in the deal of taking overdraft to supplement the short fall inherent in monthly allocation to state to pay salaries in the last four years. “The bank suddenly refused to grant the usual understanding, breaching the long standing understanding between the bank and the state. ” We wish to information the bank that the loan usually granted goes to personal accounts of Adamawa workers.
“Zenith bank should have considered the aspect of corporate social responsibility by avoiding this hardship on the people of Adamawa where it does business.” I don’t want to view their action as political because Zenith bank is not a registered political party but if its interest is to please any opposition, it will be unfortunate’, Sanga said. Efforts to speak to Mr Caleb, Manager of Zenith bank in Yola proved abortive as he neither pick calls nor returned calls. He did not equally responded to text massage put across him.