This guy IThe Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Anambra State has announced that the state government will refund civil servants whose February salaries were wrongly reduced following enforcement of attendance-based pay.
TUC Chairman in the state, Chris Ogbonna, disclosed this on Sunday in Awka, noting that the decision came after the union’s intervention over widespread complaints by affected workers.
The Anambra State Government had earlier introduced a pro-rata salary policy, effective February 2026, aimed at discouraging the long-running Monday sit-at-home compliance linked to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Under the directive, workers’ salaries were to reflect their attendance.
However, the policy sparked backlash as several civil servants reported irregular and excessive deductions.
At the Jerome Udoji State Secretariat in Awka, workers told journalists that the cuts did not correspond with the number of Mondays they missed.
Addressing the issue during a thanksgiving service marking the governor’s second year in office, Ogbonna admitted discrepancies in the salary adjustments and confirmed that the government had agreed to make refunds.
“I am pleased to inform the public that the Anambra State Government, under the leadership of our ‘Solution’ governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has promised to refund all over-deducted salaries,” he same
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He added that the refunds are currently being processed and would apply to workers whose pay was inaccurately reduced due to non-attendance on previously observed sit-at-home Mondays.
The TUC also used the opportunity to appeal to the state government to reimburse funds contributed by workers under the Contributory Pension Scheme.
Ogbonna further rated the governor’s performance across sectors at 85 percent, expressing optimism about continued improvements.
Meanwhile, the state Commissioner for Information, Law Mefor, said he could not immediately confirm the refund plan but pledged to verify details with the state Accountant-General.
The development follows earlier reports that the state government had begun deducting salaries of workers who failed to report to duty on Mondays, in line with its new attendance-driven wage policy aimed at restoring normalcy to public service operations.