The Information Minister of Lakes State says four senior officials have been suspended by the caretaker governor for misinforming employees about payment of allowances.

The four are the Director Generals of the Ministry of Education and of Public Service, the secretary General of the State Government and the head of Lakes State Workers’ Trade Union.

Dut Makoi says the Director General of the public service had written a letter to the employees, while the director general of Education had organized a teachers’ demonstration demanding for their allowances.

“They have incited the employees in their letters because they were having some correspondences that the allowances are coming to the state employees, whereas the allowances were actually meant for some of the state employees, for example the organized forces and the SPLA,” Mr Makoi told Eye Radio.

“But there was a letter written by the former Director General of the Ministry of Public Service here in the state in which he said all the employees are supposed to be given allowances.

“Remember Lakes State does not have allowances for employees and therefore, there was nothing cut at all.

“So, that letter caused a lot of confusion and it resulted in the suspension of those senior staff so that they now give what they have as to whether the money as actually arrived in the state and where is this money.”

Mr. Makoi said the government has formed a committee to investigate the matter.

He said they held a meeting with the head of a committee that is meant to pay civil servants their salaries and they discovered that he had only brought money that was cut from employees during the austerity measures.