State agents will be paid this April before the end of this month. This is in compliance with the measures adopted as part of the fight against the spread of Covid-19 obliges, from April 21 they will go to the cashier. Defense and security forces will open the floor.
A few days before April 25, pay day, several interrogations are worrying minds in Gabon. How is the government organizing to pay civil servants? Will the scenario of March 25 happen again? What measures have been taken to prevent a violation of the measures taken to control the spread of Covid-19?
At the time of the lockdown of Grand Libreville and when the country gradually exceeds the bar of 100 cases positive for Covid-19, and for the most part identified in the Gabonese capital, these questions are worthy of interest. To cut short and silence speculation, the Minister of Economy and Finance announced that government officials will be paid before time.
“During this difficult period, it is important that all agents of the state, that is to say civil servants, defense and security forces, contract workers, agents of institutions, all these people paid by the government. ‘State, collect their salaries in full,’ he said.
“For this month, there have been adjustments that have been made so that we start paying a little earlier. Usually we pay on the 25th. But this time because the 25th falls on a Saturday, we have made arrangements with the Security and Defense forces so that we start to pay as early as Tuesday the 21st, “Jean- Marie Ogandaga revealed. This decision was taken to comply with the preventive measures decreed by the government in the context of the fight against the spread of Coronavirus. To do this, state agents have been split into groups. “We have made sure that the Defense and Security forces, which have the heavy burden of maintaining public order, are served first,” he said, indicating that they will go to the counters on Tuesday April 21th. They will eventually be followed by Health personnel then the rest exceptionally on April 24 so that there are no crowds in the banks. “This is done with the collaboration of banks and the Treasury,” Jean-Marie Ogandaga said.
