Staff of RSSDA ululate travails of Agency; says only 7 out of 31 months’ salary had been paid.

Staff of the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency RSSDA has dismissed media reports that the payment of the salary is being delayed for two years because they failed to accept an offer by Governor Nyesom Wike to do a downward review of their salary structure

Chairman of the workers union Justice Eleru in a statement said that the salaries of workers were slashed by at least 30% and he said the salaries of all categories of workers were slashed since 2015 when the former director of the agency who recently resigned his appointments Larry Pepple assumed office

He added that the only invitation they received from the Rivers State Governor was when the they were invited to take part in the verification exercise in March before they were paid seven months arrears out of the thirty one month.

Justice Eleru who highlighted the many challenges of the Agency said the Management of the RSSDA is already being served a notice of eviction by its landlord to quit its office complex by December.

He said over 300 families represented in the agency are being subjected to unimaginable hardship for two years and about 500 students of the agency’s scholarship are stranded abroad with about one hundred vendors who had done supplies for the agency are being owed.

He explained that the one  million dollars the Governor recently approved for the payment of tuition fees for twenty eight final year students abroad only represent 10% of the total sum, the agency is owing the schools for its foreign scholarship programme

Officials of the Rivers State Government are yet to respond to this.