Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Monday disclosed that his administration would work towards reducing the cost of governance in order to make government more efficient.
Obaseki spoke shortly after swearing in the Director-General of his campaign organisation and a former Commissioner for Works, Osarodion Ogie, as the Secretary to the State Government at the Government House in Benin, the state capital.
He also appointed a former Project Coordinator for the World Bank Public Financial Management and Youth Employment Programme, Taiwo Akerele, and a former Executive Director, Media and Public Affairs, to the immediate past governor, John Mayaki, as his Chief of Staff and Chief Press Secretary, respectively.
The governor said, “The money is just not there but just going round, there are very many things we can do. We can realign our processes. We can restructure how we work; we are not going to sack anybody. We can get more out of the people we currently hire and people who are currently in our employment.
“I have no doubt that the task ahead of us is daunting because six years ago when we got to the peak of our achievements, we built the infrastructure you can now see today or when we design infrastructure and started building, the total revenues we used to get from the combination of state IGR (internally generated revenue) and federal allocations in some months was about N7bn.
“At that time, the exchange rate was about N150 to one dollar. Today, we barely earn N4bn in one month and the exchange rate is almost N400 to one dollar. So, it tells you in real terms that we do not have the kind of resources we had five, six years ago.”

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