C’River workers threaten protest over alleged unpaid salaries

Some aggrieved civil servants in Cross River have threatened to picket the office of the Accountant-General of the state over alleged unpaid salaries.

Some of the workers told newsmen on Friday in Calabar that they received salaries last in December 2025.

One of them, Mr Moses Effiong, a civil servant, said that several complaints made to the office of the accountant-general on the matter did not yield results.

He said that the affected workers had concluded plans to picket the accountant-general’s office as a way of protesting the non-payment of salary.

Mrs Dorcas Obi, also a state government employee, said that the accountant-general had refused to be honest on the matter after several complaints had been made.

“The accountant-general keeps shifting blames, saying that permanent secretaries have not submitted nominal rolls of workers in their ministries, but this is not true.

“We have approached the permanent secretaries, the message we get is that nominal rolls have been submitted.

“We have a situation that looks like the state government is handpicking people, as we speak, in my ministry some people have been paid while others have not.