Press Release.

10th June, 2019.

*PAY SUBEB, LG WORKERS FROM THE N5.4B TAX REFUND, GROUP URGES GOVERNOR ABDULRAHMAN.*


Following the news and the release of the sum of N5.4 billion tax refund due to Kwara State on May 28 of this year, we, the People's Voice, wish to submit our resolutuons in this regards:

1. That, the Kwara State Government under the leadership of His Execellency Alhaji Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman may wish to exercise the powers conferred on him by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to order that the money should be used to pay PART of the outstanding salaries of both SUBEB and Local Government workers.

2. That the refund money in question is outside the 2019 signed budget, therefore, the State government is at liberty to graciously and judiciously use it in championing any developmental project of public interest. And by our assessment, as a patriotic group of Kwarans, we found the payment of the outstanding salaries of the category of workers' mentioned above as paramount.

3. Our research also reveals that, both the Local Government and SUBEB (and their respective pensioners) will cost Kwara State Government N2.1 billion to pay for a month salary, therefore the available fund can cater for two and half payment or better still pay 2 months. While we suggest that the remaining N1.2 billion should be set aside for other infrastructural development projects in the state.

4. We wish to emphatically re-register our stance that the non-compliance with the court verdict and other relevant regulatory provisions that has to do with the State Government taking full charge of the running of Junior Secondary School Education in Kwara State away from Local Government Councils cannot promote nor guaranty academic excellence if it is allow to continue. The group through its Deputy Publicity Secretary call for immediate compliance actions on the part of the state government.

5. The group members observed that, leaving the financial commitment of Junior Secondary School in the hand of helpless tier of government like Local Government Area Councils is simply puting part of our Basic education in comatose And if the state government continues to play hide and seek game with the issue of Junior Secondary School Education funding in the state, it will not only spell doom in the future of our young ones but also on the generation yet unborn.


God bless Kwara State.


Signed:

*Comrade Abdulraheem Kehinde,*
*Assistant Publicity Secretary,*
*The People's Voice.*