The Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo has announced the increment in the remunerations of the state public work force by 10%, effective January 2023, Channelstv reports.

The governor made the declaration during the 2022 Public Service Day at the Jerome Udoji State Secretariat Complex, Awka.

Speaking on the theme ‘Performance Management System: Impact on the Nigerian Public Service’, the governor also announced N15,000 as Christmas bonus for civil servants.

“On the issue of Christmas rice, we reviewed how it’s done in the past and discovered that it is no longer tenable. I understand, in previous years, that past governments gave 25kg bags of rice to civil servants for Christmas.

“The state of Nigeria is bad. Everybody is complaining. Prices are rising very fast. I look at you and wonder how you cope. Today, 50kg bag of rice costs over N40,000. That’s beyond the salary of a graduate in the public service.

“What we will do instead, between today and tomorrow, we will first of all make sure that our pensioners are taken care of, to demonstrate good faith.

“I wish we could do much more but today, you will receive an alert of N15,000 as Christmas bonus”, he said.