Dickson maintained that rather than reduce the minimum wage, as being advocated in some quarters, his administration would do everything within its reach to create a more enabling environment for them to discharge their duties effectively. He said, “I don’t believe in reducing the minimum wage at all. I’m rather even in support of doing more things to make living better for civil servants...."
He reaffirmed his commitment to the training and re-training of public servants in 2016, to improve human capacity building and he also promised to see that the state workers emerge the best in Nigeria.
Governor Dickson however sympathised with the state workers over the delay in the payment of their December salary explaining that it was due to the fact that the state was yet to receive its monthly Federal allocation but gave the workers his assurance the his government will explore other means to get their salaries paid on or before next week
He explained that, the present economic situation was not peculiar to Bayelsa State, “... the economic outlook of the year 2016, is not very bright at the national level; these are issues that people must come to terms with. So don’t allow politicians and other detractors to use you in the civil service.”
He therefore implored the workers to be understanding “...so that we can partner and work together to build a better Bayelsa. Not a Bayelsa of needless rumours and antagonism and acrimony, but a Bayelsa where people show understanding." And that financial institutions have been contacted by the state so as to get the workers and pensioners paid.
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