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Oga, stop all these abeg. Do we all elect governments and pay taxes just for salaries. What is this mad desire to have only civil servants satisfied. Are they the only ones undegoing economic stress. Developmental projects are for the benefit of all the populace of that locality and whatever bailout funds are provided should meet both salaries and services in equal measure. I have said it countless times, this useless structure by which goverments at all levels spend upwards of 70 percent of revenues on recurrent expenditure is not acceptable. Civil servants are not more hardworking than the general populace and certainly not more important. They are there because there is a people to be governed and when the people suffer they should suffer as well. No institution or enterprise can and should guarantee jobs and salaries for life. If the wage bill is too high the workforce must be shed. We should stop all these abeg. It is killing this country.

If you own a company you will not invest, you will not build it, just be taking loans to pay salaries. What kind of future will you have if you will have one at all. Corporate law should be used in running states just like in the US permitting them to go bankrupt thus cutting all thses useless obligations by law. We need to urgently restructure.

Chukazu:


is not about been best governor, its how money got misappropriated on the wrong projects

is a Nigerian disease where...
1.money accrued is different from money appropriated

2.money appropriated is different from money budgeted for

3.where money budgeted for is different from money approved.

4.money approved is different from money released

5.money released is different from money spent

6.money spent is different from money well spent

sarrki:

Kogi and Benue are accidental governors.
They have failed God and humanity.

Bayelsa is using the money to pay back to banks that loaned him during electioneering campaign.

Osun is paying back debts due to over stretching of infrastructural development

Ondo is paying back loan he also collected from bank for his campaign

Abia before now was using it for sponsoring Igbos.

DaInferno:
u hit the nail by the head... As the nail enter, u still the hitam!

sarrki:
Zamfara is busy buying cars for big sons children and also acquiring posh house in America

IMO is the case of osun he his paying back loans he collected due to over stretched infrastructural development

Ekiti governor is a total disaster and collosal failure

He used his own in media propaganda to abuse buhari

Childofaking:


Paying salaries will not stop any governor from executing other projects if they are serious. The problem with the wage bills is that the salary paid to ghost workers is more than the salary of living workers. States should trim down their salaries by purging them of ghost workers.

EbukaLive:

You finish work for this comment. This is by far your best comment on this site in a long while.

chiscodedon:
Without even seeing imo state,I would have question the credibility of this post
Imaging stupid and lazy governors, thats why I root for true federalism, it's high time they woke up,you can't sit down,waiting at the end of every month,to go share federal allocation you never worked for.they should study there states,utilize there resources and make there civil servants be up and doing to generate more revenues foe there states hence they're paying them salary

40kobo77:
Ekiti?

Not surprised. And that thief has been kissing IPOB shiny Nyansh,because he is eyeing the Presidency.

So this is how he plans to ruin Nigeria?

omenka:
[s]Of course Benue must be there. I strongly doubt anything good can come of Ortom.

The man has totally lost it.[/s]

kahal29:
* ABIA, BAYELSA, EBONYI, EKITI, IMO, KOGI, BENUE, OSUN, ONDO and ZAMFARA.

TEN states have misspent the bail out funds and the Paris Club refund, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said yesterday.

The NLC made good its threat to “Name and Shame” states that refused to pay workers or make public the bailout funds and the Paris Club refund they got.

The congress also warned the government against approving another increase in electricity tariff, saying it will mobilise its affiliates, social partners and other Nigerians to resist any further increase when Nigerians were yet to get a good service foe the previous increase, which has been declared illegal by the court.

NLC President Ayuba Wabba, who spoke at the National Executive Council meeting of the Non Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) in Abuja, said six of the 10 states were in a terrible situation, pointing out that the congress had directed all states chapters whose members are owed more than three months salaries to declare an industrial action.

While reacting to President Muhammadu Buhari’s disappointment with the governors over the utilisation of the funds, Wabba had told The Nation that the congress was compiling a list of governors who failed to spend the funds on workers’ salaries.

Wabba said: “Out of the 36 states, we have 10 bad case scenario and out of this 10, we have six terrible ones. We have promised to name and shame them.

Those states include Imo that has been paying workers salaries in percentage and has not declared utilisation of the bail out fund and Paris Club refund. It is part of the states that ICPC has mentioned in fund diversion.“They paid 40 percent pension to their pensioners without their consent and provided a form for them to sign under duress. That is not allowed in law.

We have Bayelsa, which has between five to 10 months arrears.

Ondo is owing between four and six,

Ekiti (five to eight),

Benue (Five to Eight) and

Kogi, which is the worst case scenario. "We have three categories of workers in Kogi. We have 40 per cent that are being paid up to date, we have 25 per cent that has not been paid between eight and 16 months and another 25 per cent that has not been paid between eight and 21 months. In all, the sectors, they have categorised the workers into three categories.

“We also have the case of Osun which is also paying in percentage, but is up to date.

Ebonyi, unilaterally, without discussion with the union tried to reduce the salaries by certain percentage and have also not made available records of utilisation of the Paris Club refund.

“We have the case of Zamfara, which is the only state that has not implemented the minimum wage and all attempt (including agreements they have signed) to get them to make available records of utilisation of those funds have failed.

The last one is, Abia which has a problem with the parastatals. On the average, other states are above board.

The NLC chief went on: “As I speak to you, both Zamfara and Benue are on strike and I am aware that Kogi has issued a notice, which is in conformity with the decision we took at our last NEC meeting that any state with liability of more than three months should start an action and we will be there to support them.”

Speaking on the statement credited to the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Power that one of the problem in the power sector was low electricity tariff, Wabba said workers will not accept any further increase in tariff.

Culled from The Nation Newspaper

http://thenationonlineng.net/nlc-names-states-not-utilising-bail-fund/

omenka:
Of course Benue must be there. I strongly doubt anything good can come of Ortom.

The man has totally lost it.

Chukazu:


is not about been best governor, its how money got misappropriated on the wrong projects

is a Nigerian disease where...
1.money accrued is different from money appropriated

2.money appropriated is different from money budgeted for

3.where money budgeted for is different from money approved.

4.money approved is different from money released

5.money released is different from money spent

6.money spent is different from money well spent

folly22:
I want to know the level of performance? The level of performance is what I don't know. What spectacular thing he did that other governors before hi didn't do that made him to be servicing loan he borrowed massively to do nothing spectacular. Wot he did is what am interested in

chiscodedon:
Without even seeing imo state,I would have question the credibility of this post
Imaging stupid and lazy governors, thats why I root for true federalism, it's high time they woke up,you can't sit down,waiting at the end of every month,to go share federal allocation you never worked for.they should study there states,utilize there resources and make there civil servants be up and doing to generate more revenues foe there states hence they're paying them salary

fergie001:
Wabba has done well, it is good sometimes to call out the Governors,so that we can leave the ineptitude at the Centre and focus on these 36 thieves.

aku626:
So If we keep voting different political parties into power every other election we'd always be in recession

Chukazu:


what true federalism and possibly restructuring can do is to marge some of the states together. the truth most states are not economically viable.
if you marge them ,instead of having plethora of commissioners,special advisers ,special assistants ,special aids and all what not in one state;just have few ministers from one region and save loads of money on waste

davidif:


Gbam!!!!! Finally, someosomeone is saying what I have tried to.tell Nigerians for years. Focus ibn the govt closest to you. All states get allocations why do the citizens hardly ask them what happened to the money.