A SERIES of court orders which garnished the state’s accounts has rendered the Governor Ortom-led administration helpless, and is the main reason why the state’s teeming civil servants will not be paid December salaries.
Speaking on the difficulty confronting the state government the commissioner of Information, Culture and Tourism, Ngunan Adingi, said the garnishee order has grounded government activities.
She explained that the order to garnish government accounts was secured in different courts in Nasarawa and Abuja.
“Some aggrieved non-indigenes working in the state, who were redeployed to their states in 2007 under the State Universal Basic Education Board took the State Government to court to protest the action,”, stated the commissioner.
She continued, “Consequently in 2008, the court in the case between Juliana Igweka and 95 others versus SUBEB and Attorney General of Benue State, declared that the affected persons be reinstated in the civil service.
“Counsels for the applicants in turn went back to court asking for monetary compensation, which was not part of the original judgment.
“But when the applicants failed to get the courts to do their wish in the state, they, through Barrister Ucha Ulegede and J.S. Okutepa, SAN, went to different courts in Nasarawa and Federal Capital Territory to secure garnishee orders on all accounts of the state, which was served yesterday, thereby crippling all government activities, including payment of salaries.”
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