Soludo to Refund Salaries of Anambra Workers Slashed over Monday Sit-at-home

By Praise Chinecherem

Anambra State Government has promised to refund the over deducted salaries of workers absent from work on Mondays in January and February in compliance to Sit-at-home order.

State Chairman of Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Chris Ogbonna disclosed this while speaking to newsmen at St Patrick’s Cathedral Awka during Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s thanksgiving service to commence his second term in office.

The government had in January, 2026 announced a pro-rata payment system, with deductions from salaries of civil servants who failed to attend work on Mondays.

Weeks after the announcement, it was a tale of woes among the workers as they lamented huge deductions from their February salaries as reflected from bank alerts for their wages.

Some workers lamented huge deductions from their salaries that did not tally with the number of Mondays they failed to show up for work.

One of the workers who pleaded anonymity claimed a worker in his Ministry received N100 only as payment for February, after deductions.

But reacting to the development, the TUC boss who admitted to the deductions, however announced that government has promised to refund the deducted salaries to the affected workers in the state.

He said the promise came following the body’s urgent intervention, saying the money was being processed.

“I am highly pleased to inform the public that the Anambra State Government under the leadership of our solution governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo has promised to refund all the over deducted salaries of all the Civil Servants and other workers who failed to go to work on Mondays during the heated period.

“The government has promised to refund the money where applicable, those of them, they deducted their salaries for failing to go to work in respect of so called “Monday sit-at-home”.

“The TUC in Anambra under my leadership is also using this opportunity with the press to appeal to our Solution governor to help us refund the money our members paid to the Contributing Pension Scheme operating in the state.