The Chairmen of the dissolved local government councils in Katsina State have been assured of getting their outstanding salaries paid.
The assurance was made on Tuesday by the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Ahmad El-Marzuq, while stating that it was ordered by the Supreme Court.
Marzuq said the state government being a law-abiding entity had no reason to disobey a decision of the highest court in the land.
He added that the payment process has started and so far, up to 80 per cent of those being owed have been settled.
The state Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Salisu Majigiri, in a separate interview, described the Supreme Court judgment as victory for not only the parties involved, but also for democracy.
Majigiri said the ruling would serve as a deterrent to state governors who had the penchant for dissolving constitutionally elected local councils on flimsy grounds.
It would be recalled that Kano State Governor Aminu Masari had, in 2015, dissolved the elected PDP chairmen in all the thirty-four Local Government Areas of the state.
