The Kogi state Governor, Yahaya Bello has revealed that he borrowed N10 billion to clear-off four months’ salary arrears before the Christmas celebration.

He said the loan was added to the over N1.2 billion that accrued to Kogi state from the Paris Club refund as well as the state’s November and December allocations to achieve the feat.

Yahya Bello disclosed this on Friday when he visited the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

His words, “ In Kogi state today we are up to date as far as salary is concerned, In December, Mr President magnanimously assisted us with another tranche of the Paris Club Refund”. “Our own figure was N1.2 billion and some other change on top”.

“We did not stop at that we borrowed up to N10 billion and we added November/December allocation to our figures and we were able to clear four months at a stretch before Christmas and some left-over were cleared before this January in Kogi state”

He also stressed thus “As you all know the salary was very bogus and according to the figure we had we were able to distribute it among these months”. “So glory to God as far as Kogi state is concerned”

The Kogi state governor said from January 2018 a clocking method will be introduced, as workers will be paid according to how they come to work.

“Moving forward from this January, We have decided that we are going to make use of our clock-in device for every civil servant in Kogi state, both at local and state levels”

“So as you come to work and clock-in, that is exactly how your salary will be generated, it is online, it is automated so nobody is going to cheat anybody”



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Thief of the highest order. What happened to 6 billion paris club refund and the previous allocations , bailout etc. You only paid 40% of salaries of 30 percent of staff while declaring the rest as ghost. It is on record that you have received about 8 billion every month for the past 24 months that you have been governor. We saw how many projects Your predecessor did with 8 billion that he got as bond. I dare you to show one project. God punish you Bello