The Anambra State Government has slashed the February salaries of workers who failed to report for work on Mondays, which were earlier declared sit-at-home days by the Indigenous People of Biafra.
The state government has announced the commencement of pro-rata salary payments for workers across the state as part of efforts to end the Monday sit-at-home, saying that effective February 2026, civil servants’ salaries will be paid according to pro-rata.
The state government also used the opportunity to announce an end to the sit-at-home protest.
However, it was a tale of woe for some of the workers as they received the alerts for the February salaries with significant deductions and a pay cut.
Although at the Jerome Udoji State Secretariat in Awka, the state capital, some workers who spoke to journalists on Tuesday complained that the deductions from their salaries did not correspond with the number of Mondays they failed to report to work.
One worker, who requested anonymity for fear of being victimised, said a colleague in his ministry received only N10,000 as payment for February after the deductions.
Another staff member, from the Ministry of Information, lamented that out of his total salary of over N80,000, he received just N3,500.
