State Government on Wednesday complied with directives of National Finance Intelligent Unit on direct allocation to Local Government Areas in the state by augmenting the payments of salaries with N600
million monthly.State had raised an alarm that following the implementation of the National Finance Intelligent Unit on direct allocation to LG, that 13 out of the 25 LGsThe state government through the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Akilu Musa Kuta, told newsmen that the local government areas in the state do not owe workers their salaries.
“We don’t have issues with the payment of salaries as it affects Local Government Area workers. Since the inception of this administration, I don’t think we have defaulted. “We have a very few Local Government Areas that we augment especially Chanchaga, Bida, Suleja, Kontagora, Mokwa, Paikoro, Shiroro, Lavun, Lapai, Agaie, Paikoro, Rijau, and Tafa. It is not that this can not be surmounted.
“Sometimes we have high and or low inflow of allocation. But on the average, we augment for these Local Government Areas within the range of between N500 million and N600 million monthly. And we do take overdraft to overcome these obstacles.” A few weeks ago, the Chairman, NULGE in the state, Abdulkareem Lafene had said, “The direct allocation policy is already being implemented and has achieved close to 90 per cent success in the state.”
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