In fulfilment of his promise to make sacrifice in order to create opportunities for other less disadvantaged Cross Riverians by expanding government, Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade, yesterday voluntarily slashed his salary by 80% .
In the same vein, the deputy governor, Prof. Ivara Esu , the Secretary to the State Government, Barr. Tina Banku Agbor and all the executive council members have similarly slashed their salaries by 20%. Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Barr. Rosemary Archibong announced the decision at a press conference at the Ernest Etim Bassey Press Center Calabar.
According to her, “this is predicated on the fact that the governor, Prof. Ben Ayade wants governance to reach as far as it can possibly reach while increasing participation in government.”Archibong explained that “with a lot of financial burden, we decided voluntarily to forego part of our emolument to help meet the personnel needs, human needs of Cross River state government in support of its vision, policies and programs. “The Information commissioner said the initiative was also geared towards ensuring that “our brothers and sisters coming to government will go home with something.”She further enjoined Cross Riverians to rally round in support of the passion and human relation based governance of Prof. Ben Ayade, pointing out that the slash has nothing to do with salaries of civil servants and will not go into any capital expenditure.
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