Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has slashed March salaries of political office holders by 50 per cent.

Kano Information Commissioner, Muhammad Garba, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, explaining that the pay cut was due to shortfall in the revenue accruing to the state from the federation account.

Garba revealed that the governor, deputy governor, all commissioners, special advisers, senior special assistant, special assistants, chairmen, vice chairmen, elected councillors, supervisory councillors, advisers and secretaries of local governments are those affected by the cut.

The state chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has, however, given the government a seven-day ultimatum to refund and stop what it described as “illegal deduction” from civil servants.

NLC insisted that failure to do so would make workers to embark on a three-day warning strike from midnight of April 7.

It was gathered that in March, Kano received a total allocation of N12.4bn from the federation account, out of which the state collected N6.1bn, while the 44 Local Governments collected N6.3bn.