Report emerged this week in the media that the Edo state government owed the late coach Amodu unpaid salaries to the tune of 25 million, but the Edo state government have rejected that claim.
Coach Amodu who died early Saturday at his
residence in Benin and was also buried that same day at his home town in
Okpella according to Islamic rights was said to have written a letter demanding
for the payment of his financial entitlement which amounted to N25 million.
However, the state government through Peter
Okhiria, the chief press secretary to the Governor explained that the late football
icon and coach was employed on a “fixed-term contract basis” as Consultant and Technical
Adviser of the Edo State
The statement read, “It is basic that a
fixed-term contract ends automatically when the agreed end date is reached and the
employer doesn’t have to give any notice. This means that a fixed-term contract is
deemed terminated if not renewed.
“In spite of the fact that
the said contract was not renewed, the late Amodu Shaibu continued to draw his monthly
wage of N2 million until it was stopped by the Office of the Accountant General
in June, 2015, following the discovery after a staff biometric verification
exercise.
“The late Amodu Shaibu
thereafter tendered his ‘letter of resignation’, in September 2015, even
when the said contract was not renewed and had been deemed terminated,
following its non-renewal.”
It added, “However, on Wednesday, June
8, 2016, two days before his unfortunate death, the late Shaibu submitted a
letter to the Secretary to Edo State Government, dated same day, claiming
unpaid salaries for four months, totalling N8 million only.
“Although the late Shaibu’s contract had long expired even
before his ‘resignation letter,’ which ‘took effect’ from September 30, 2015, and
even though Edo State Government did not owe him unpaid wages as the contract
was not renewed, the State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, however, approved his
claim for N8 million, purely on compassionate grounds.
“We, therefore, make bold to
state that the contents of a letter in circulation, purportedly written by the
late Shaibu Amodu, is patently false. The letter contains claims that have no
bearing with the financial transactions of Edo State Government.
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