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In the bid to further demonstrate the defining ideology of transparency, Accountability and Welfare for both workers and pensioners, the Kogi state Government has released her Financials for the year 2021.

The Honourable Commissioner of Finance,Budget and Economic Planning, Mukadam Asiwaju Asiru Idris, states that the new direction Government under Governor Yahaya Bello has made transparency, Accountability and efficiency in utilization of available resources, saying such tempo will be sustained in the quest to engender a better and greater Kogi state. Our financial management and Economic reforms is also yielding bountiful results in our bid to provide people oriented governance.

In the statement released, the sum of N9,859,560,923 was paid for pensions between January and November 2021, while the sum of N1,100,000,000 was paid for Gratuity between January and November 2021.

Social benefits or social transfers are transfers made in cash or kind to persons or families to lighten the financial burden of protection from various risk. The Kogi State Government under Governor Yahaya Bello is passionate about using the resources of the people for their collective good, which has been well demonstrated under the year in review. The sum of N10,366,920, 483 was paid last year for social benefit in the 2020 Audited Financial Statements to easy the financial stress and risk of the retired civil servants.Under the Expenditure of the state Government in the year under review, the sum of N25,572,872, 394 was paid for salaries and wages and N27,136,530, 459.10 stands as sum of Overheadcost.
With the above expenditure highlight, Kogi State Government led by His Excellency, Governor Yahaya Bello has shown beyond mere words that the people will continually be at the centre of her governance process and decisions, which includes the vulnerable, pensioners and payment of Gratuity.

World Bank hails Kogi's 2020 Audited Financial Statement

The World Bank has commended the Government of Kogi State on its 2020 audited financial statement, describing the financial report as a standard for transparency and accountability in the public sector.

The Bank made the commendation in a letter sent to the Accountant General of Kogi State, dated November 21, 2021.

The letter, which was received by the state Accountant General was signed by the States Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability Programme (SFTAS) Task Team Leader, Nigeria Country Office, Western and Central African Region, Deborah Hannah Isser.

SFTAS is a $750m programme to reward States for meeting any or all of nine indicators that demonstrate improvements in fiscal transparency, accountability and sustainability.

The nine indicators are an offshoot of the previous Fiscal Sustainability Plan of the Federal Government where States were to be rewarded for meeting up to 22 targets.

The World Bank had supported the Federal Government to incentivise the States to properly achieve the 22-point Fiscal Sustainability Plan, which has now been redesigned as the nine Disbursement Linked Indicators under SFTAS.

The SFTAS programme is part of efforts of the Federal Government to further enhance the transparency and accountability in the use of public resources through the implementation of the Open Government Partnership, which Nigeria signed to in July 2016.

The latest World Bank letter is also coming about a month after the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) acknowledged the improvement of Kogi State on its ICAN’S Novel Accountability Index (ICAN AI).

The institute said the State moved from 12th to 7th position in its 2019 assessments.

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The position of the governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, on the monetary 'management' of the Covid-19 have kept on being enhanced across the world as global leaders continue to repeat the expressions of the governor even at the just finished up United Nations Conference for Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow.

Governor Bello, reacting to the 'management' and funding of the pandemic in Nigeria, had on April 1, 2020, said that "let me reiterate that Nigeria cannot afford to commit our severely strained finances to 'manage' covid19 on the scale currently proposed.

Apart from corruption which will take massive advantage of the situation, we have Trillion Naira plans for education, health, human capital, sorely needed infrastructure, indeed development programs in all sectors, which lie unimplemented at state and federal levels, because we don't have the money. I say we must not recklessly throw the little we to have at Covid-19."

World over, the governor won the hearts of numerous for keeping a faithful position and offering Nigerians a canny way-out with prescience.

Joining the governor to rescue Nigerians, the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, while responding to the proposed amount of about N400 billion to inoculate 70% of Nigeria's populace at $8 per vaccine, prompted that "there is no doubt that the impact of putting money into the health system particularly the primary healthcare system will be very high in terms of saving children’s lives."

Gates emphasized that “Nigeria should not divert the very limited money that it has for health into trying to pay a high price for COVID-19 vaccines."

A while down the line, the expressions of governor Bello were offered that might be of some value of global leaders assembled in Glasgow to sort out a solution for climate change.

In an address at the summit, the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, once more, intensified the governor of Kogi State as she spoke that "The central banks of the wealthiest countries engaged in $25 trillion of quantitative easing in the last 13 years. Of that, $9 trillion was spent in the last 18 months to fight the pandemic. Had we used that $25 trillion to finance the energy transition we would now be reaching that 1.5 degrees limit that is so vital to us?"

Today, governor Bello's choice is the guide to global conversations as the pandemic through its 'bungle' had removed a fortune from the world economy.

Howbeit, Nigerians would consistently be thankful that a man remained with them and remained in favor of truth as far as possible. Individuals are additionally pleased that the expressions of the youthful leader which have turned into the light through which the world tracks down its direction.

As great leaders would think the same, inside any semblance of Gates, Bello, Mia, and others, the world, including, Nigeria would dig up some authentic confidence in having better countries across the world.