KEDCO Workers Gets Salary Increment

Francis Sardauna

The management of Kano Electricity Distribution Company ( KEDCO) has said it has increased the salaries of 1, 500 of its workforce in order to boost their performances and efficiency in the company.

The increment according to the company, was an enhanced compensation package to reward over 1500 employees who have put in their best in 2018 which made the company to achieved 60 per cent of its revenue generation.

A statement issued in Katsina by the company’s Head of Cooperate Communications, Ibrahim Sani Shawai, said the increment followed the conclusion of the 2018 performance appraisal.

Shawai, in the statement said after the conclusion of the performance appraisal for the year under review, the management deems it fit to increase the salaries of some staff based on their performance.

“Over 1, 500 staff benefited from the increment which ranges from 2 percent to 6 percent. The increment is effective from Jan 2019. This implies that beneficiaries will get arrears from January 2019 to date,” he said.

He charged the beneficiaries to rekindle their efforts in order to meet the company’s 75 per cent collection efficiency target for 2019, which he said would lead to more rewards for them.

Shawai quoted the Managing Director of the company, Dr. Jamilu Isyaku Gwamna, to have assured the company’s workforce of better days ahead.

The General Manager of Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency (LASPARK), Mrs. Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola, has said the state government will spend over N1.5billion in the next two years to regenerate the Gbagada-Maryland wetland which serves as drains for flood in the Lagos mainland area.

Adebiyi-Abiola, also disclosed that the wetland was now being encroached by developer despite the fact that the place is not