The Kwara State government has clarified that the five hundred naira deducted from the September 2017 salaries of workers and pensions of retired workers in the State is payment for a new multi-purpose identification card and is with the knowledge of workers and pensioners.
The State Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Demola Banu, who made the clarification in a statement today, said the actual cost of the card is one thousand, two hundred naira but was subsidized by the consortium handling the workers’ biometric verification exercise.
Banu explained that the multi-purpose ID card contains features including Kwara Resident Identification Number, is payment enabled and can be used as an automated teller machine (ATM) card. The Commissioner said that the deduction was done with the knowledge of the State chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress and Pensioners Union of Nigeria.
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