{"id":171505,"date":"2019-11-29T10:25:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T08:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=171505"},"modified":"2019-11-29T09:37:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T08:37:38","slug":"wikes-sa-resigns-over-non-payment-of-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=171505","title":{"rendered":"Wike’s SA resigns over non-payment of salary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Senior Special Adviser to the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on Physically Challenge Matters, Tekena Zephanian-Altraide has resigned his appointment.<\/p>\n

In a fifteen-page resignation letter to the Governor, Zephanian-Altraide noted that it appears that he has been disengaged of his appointment even before his resignation following the action of the Governor on his office.<\/p>\n

He complained that since his appointment in 2016, his office had never had a running cost.<\/p>\n

He added that he struggles to pay his staffers their allowances from his personal salary of about three hundred and twenty-eight thousand Naira.<\/p>\n

The former SA commended the governor for appointing him, adding that, it proved to the world that people living with disabilities could also handle government positions.<\/p>\n

Tekena Zephanian-Altraide therefore, regretted that even as an SA to a Governor, he could not pay his father\u2019s medical bill which led to his death in September since he was owed from July till date.<\/p>\n

It is unknown if the Governor has accepted or rejected the resignation.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senior Special Adviser to the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on Physically Challenge Matters, Tekena Zephanian-Altraide has resigned his appointment. In a fifteen-page resignation letter to the Governor, Zephanian-Altraide noted that it appears that he has been disengaged of his appointment even before his resignation following the action of the Governor on his office. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,5091,642],"class_list":["post-171505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-nyesom-wike","tag-rivers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}