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| Benue Workers Sack Assembly Over Bailout Payment by justiz5(m): 1:53am On Oct 29, 2015 |
[b][size=14pt] Benue Workers Sack Assembly over Bailout Payment [/size] George Okoh in Makurdi
 Benue State workers yesterday protested the non-payment of their salaries from the bailout fund collected by the state government as they drove away members of the state House of Assembly and their consultant who were out to the 23 local government areas of the state for staff verification exercise. But the Speaker of the assembly, Mr. Terkimbi Ikyange, described the act as ignorance on the part of the workers, adding that they would soon come back to the assembly and request for the exercise after they must have realised the overwhelming merits of its necessity. Reports from about 15 local government areas including Ushongo, Otukpo, Vandeikya, Gboko, Ogbadibo among others, indicated that while in other places, workers were not seen at the venues designated for the exercise, they were organised and visibly hostile. Though efforts to get the state Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Chairman, Godwin Anya, proved unsuccessful as he could neither answer his calls nor reply a text message sent to him in that regard. A member of his executive confided in THISDAY that though the state chairman had compromised and was willing to push the workers into the exercise, they, within the executive, had all agreed to boycott it. He said:“Other states have paid the bailout as soon as it arrived without any form of screening. The N28 billion was based on the figure we were owed in line with the state’s workforce which was submitted to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). “Yesterday, some workers in Benue State, include former political appointees, threatened to drag the state government before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over suspected fraud in the handling of the N28 billion bailout funds granted the state by the federal government.” Some of the workers, who spoke under anonymity, complained of government attitude in handling the payment of the funds to the beneficiaries. Another source revealed that the bailout fund had since been granted the state government but, however, disclosed that the state government in turn lodged the fund into two commercial banks in Makurdi with the aim of generating interest. According to a former aide of the past governor of the state and who is being owned furniture and severance allowances, Mr. Paul Terhemen, the action of the state government appeared fraudulent and must be checked. He said the government got the N28 billion loan package after submitting a request that included the payment of outstanding pension and severance owned workers but wondered why after collecting the loan the government is trying to exclude them from benefiting. He said:“We reject in its totality what the state government is doing and we call on the EFCC to investigate the action of the government.” They also condemned the verification exercise of the workers by the state government which has delayed the payment of the loans, adding that such exercise should have been carried out even before the application for the loan. [/b] www.thisdaylive.com/articles/benue-workers-sack-assembly-over-bailout-payment/223994/ |
| Re: Benue Workers Sack Assembly Over Bailout Payment by BlackAlbino6(m): 2:05am On Oct 29, 2015 |
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| Re: Benue Workers Sack Assembly Over Bailout Payment by iamok: 2:14am On Oct 29, 2015 |
It is pathetic that many have shifted attention from local and state govt levels. All we focus on is Buhari this, Buhari that especially on nairaland. What are the state governors doing, let's put them on their feet, not just federal govt alone 1 Like |
| Re: Benue Workers Sack Assembly Over Bailout Payment by Aromas: 3:58am On Oct 29, 2015 |
iamok:You said it all my brother! 1 Like |
| Re: Benue Workers Sack Assembly Over Bailout Payment by Opinedecandid(m): 4:21am On Oct 29, 2015 |
Bail out funds CANNOT be enough! While I call on the State Govt. not to punish workers unnecessarily before giving them their due, I also believe that in-tmes-like-this, the Govt has to do the needful to authenticate the actual number of employees in her employ in order to block all avenues of leakages. Moreover, all parties must be prepared to make sacrifices, both the political office holders and the civil servants. If they can't get all their salaries, they have to make do with part of it. However, It is foolish for States Chief Executives to rely on what ever allocation they are given by the Federal Government of Nigeria. Same way, it is also foolishness for the Federal government to continue rely on the revenue from oil. Over the years, it wasn't enough, is it now that we are 'rescued' by the dwindling oil prices that it will be enough? Rescued in the sense that the global decline in the value of oil has presented us with a golden opportunity to start looking inwards with a view to developing several other sectors of the economy which have laid fallow, untapped and abandoned over the years. State governors must rise up 'dakkada' and see to it that in a few years time, they won't depend on Federal Allocation. Again, this is the reason while some of us think, all natural resources in different states should be controlled by the states that have them, then some percentage of what they generate from there would be paid to the Federal Government. If Nigeria and indeed, Africa must be self-sufficient, then we must practice true federalism. With this, one bleached-skin man in the name of Donald Trump or whatever, will not vomit poo about us in a century from now. #operationlookinwards 1 Like |
| Re: Benue Workers Sack Assembly Over Bailout Payment by omenka(m): 7:02am On Oct 29, 2015 |
Upon what stats did the useless state government base their application for the funds that they now want to "screen" the workers?? What I see here is a state government, in consort with a highly compromised state legislature, delaying the payments while the money yields interest in the banks for them to share OR trying to eliminate the "ghost workers" whose salaries were initially captured in the request for bailout and pocketing their salaries. The APC government in Benue state is the worst in the country. |
| Re: Benue Workers Sack Assembly Over Bailout Payment by justiz5(m): 7:07am On Oct 29, 2015 |
iamok:Of a truth the change we craved for is not taking place at the state level, but only at the federal level. I so much suspect the state governors are not ready to deliver on their mandate. |
| Re: Benue Workers Sack Assembly Over Bailout Payment by justiz5(m): 7:21am On Oct 29, 2015 |
Opinedecandid:i fully subscribe to your thinking however, what would you expect from politicians who only got their to empty the treasury. These people lack the basic but essentials of productive governance: governance that is self dependent even when it comes to resource generation and utilization. |
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