{"id":24880,"date":"2019-06-06T22:24:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=24880"},"modified":"2019-06-06T22:24:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:24:53","slug":"jubilation-as-ihedioha-pays-full-salaries-to-imo-workers-visits-ekeukwu-market-opens-douglas-rd-doctors-call-off-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=24880","title":{"rendered":"Jubilation, As Ihedioha Pays Full Salaries To Imo Workers .Visits Ekeukwu Market, Opens Douglas Rd ..Doctors Call Off Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"238\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/owerri.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24881\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/owerri.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/owerri-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Civil servants in Imo State have burst into happy mood following the decision of the state governor, Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha to return their salary to 100 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would be recalled that a reasonable time the former governor, Owelle Rochas  Okorocha was in power, workers in the state received a deducted per cent of their salaries same as the pensioners who also got 40%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ihedioha brought smiles on the faces of the workers when he told striking workers of the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, to return back to work promising to pay 100%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite provision of bailout fund to make up for workers salaries when state governments faced challenges, Okorocha caused labour leaders in the state to accept 70% of their salaries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But making the revelation to pay 100%, Ihedioha said that from May workers in the state would received their full salaries and not half from May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the promise including a promise to pay their outstanding three months, the doctors agreed to call off their strike to give the new governor a chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news of the full salaries has brought joy as workers express happiness over the new development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a section of the workers who spoke to Trumpeta, the decision of Ihedioha is a welcome development and justifies the reason why the masses chose him during the 2019 governorship election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what we expect from the new governor, a full payment than half payment the former governor paid us&#8221; one of those interviewed offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil servants in Imo State have burst into happy mood following the decision of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24882,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880\/revisions\/24882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}