Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson has said only workers who have completed their Bank Verification Number registration will receive their salaries at the end of the month.
However, he warned those behind salary fraud in the state to stop or be ready for punishment.
Dickson, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, spoke on a live radio interview programme on Tuesday.
The governor said his administration had good intentions for the state.
He said the technology and method being used in the ongoing exercise would further reduce the wage bill of the state from its current N4bn to a more realistic figure.
Dickson said, “Those people in the civil service who are used to adding names to the payroll at the local government level, teaching service, parastatals and in the main civil service must stop. There is simply no money to service their criminality and greed. They have done it for all these years. Now, we are saying, enough is enough.
“We want a situation where, after the verification, genuine civil servants will be paid even if it is N2bn that we get in a month. I really feel bad that for about three months now, workers have not been paid.
“But we are making efforts to get the money to pay them at the end of this month by the grace of God. Those who have done their verification and produced their BVN will have their salaries.”
Speaking on the electoral violence in the country, Dickson called on President Muhammadu Buhari to order an investigation into election-related killings in Rivers and Bayelsa states.
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