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"I am making this clarification, that federal workers are not
being owed a dime. Any state Government still owing its
workers till this time must take responsibility for its
failings".
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All Federal allocation to state have been paid to date and it
is now confirmed that there is a no reason for states to be
owing their workers months of salaries sin arrears and
turning round to blame the Federal government.
We are waiting for those state governments that used their
state workers wages and salaries for election campaign and
their propaganda media to explain to Nigerians why our
workers are still going to work on empty stomach?

Shegman22:
"I am making this clarification, that federal workers are not
being owed a dime. Any state Government still owing its
workers till this time must take responsibility for its
failings".
******************************************
All Federal allocation to state have been paid to date and it
is now confirmed that there is a no reason for states to be
owing their workers months of salaries sin arrears and
turning round to blame the Federal government.
We are waiting for those state governments that used their
state workers wages and salaries for election campaign and
their propaganda media to explain to Nigerians why our
workers are still going to work on empty stomach? http://www.hopefornigeriaonline.com/onfacebook

The Federal Government on Wednesday absolved itself of
blame in the inability of some state governments to pay
their workers’ salaries.
It said the governors of such states should be blamed for
the development in their states because they were told
through the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee to
make the issue of wage a priority.
The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said this
in a statement by her Special Adviser on Communications,
Paul Nwabuikwu.
The statement was necessitated by the All Progressives
Congress governors’ claim that the negative manner the
outgoing Goodluck Jonathan administration was running
the economy had made it difficult for them to pay salaries
regularly.
But Okonjo-Iweala said that despite the 50 per cent drop in
gross federally collectible revenue, the Federal Government
had made the issue of workers’ salaries a top priority in
order to ensure that the “people do not feel the negative
impact of the revenue drop on the economy.”
For instance, the minister said that contrary to the
“misinformation being put forward by certain governors to
the effect that federal workers are being owed, staff
salaries at the Federal level are up-to-date.”
She said in the five paragraph statement that the states,
being one of the three tiers of government that receive
monthly allocations from the Federation Account, should be
blamed for their predicament.
The statement read, “This is to clarify the misinformation
put forward by certain governors to the effect that Federal
workers are being owed salaries.
“This is incorrect. Staff salaries at the Federal level are up-
to-date; workers have received their April salaries.
“Regarding difficulties in salary payments, certain
governors are trying to blame the Federal Government for
their predicament. This is wrong. They had been told
through the FAAC to prioritise salaries but they chose not to
do so, hence the backlog that some states are experiencing.
“The 50 per cent drop in revenues simply means that
salaries should be prioritised. The Federal Government
should not be blamed for avoidable mistakes made at the
state level.”
The APC governors had during a meeting with the
President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, in Abuja on Tuesday,
expressed frustrations about their inability to pay workers’
salaries.
They therefore appealed to Buhari to consider a bailout plan
for all the 36 state governments after his inauguration on
May 29.
They said, “One of the issues that became of concern to all
of us is the state of the Nigerian economy which is really in
a bad shape.
“We have come to notify the incoming president of the
challenges ahead of him. As it stands today, most states of
the federation have not been able to pay salaries and even
the Federal Government has not paid April salaries and that
is very worrisome, by May and June, that (salaries) will be
in cumulative of three months.
“We wonder with the huge expectation of Nigerians and
people who have voted us into power, we are hoping that
the president-elect will do everything humanly possible to
bring about a bailout not only for the states but the Federal
Government, at least for people to get their salaries and
turn around the economy.”
The Nigeria Labour Congress had on April 28, insisted that
state governors must pay outstanding salaries before the
May 29 handover date.
The factional Deputy President of the NLC, Peters
Adeyemi, said at the ninth National Delegates conference
of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria in
Abuja, that workers had commenced the campaign to
prevail on the governors to pay outstanding salaries before
May 29.
The National Administrative Council of the NLC had on
March 19, 2015 set up a committee to compel state
governments to pay over eight months salary arrears owed
workers.
The congress had on December 31, 2014 said that 11
states owed workers salaries.
Adeyemi said that workers should not be made to bear the
brunt of the mismanagement of the economy as they were
not part of those who looted the treasury. http://www.punchng.com/news/govs-should-be-blamed-for-unpaid-salaries-okonjo-iweala/

What an intelligent woman!!!

I believe Their Allocations were given to them
After Using the State Funds for election campaigns,,The Old Fools Started Crying That the president Wrecked the Economy


Tell them madam,,if the Old Edits want Statistics,,Give Them One!!

My own state is owning nobody. Proudly an igbo girl from Enugu state.
God bless Enugu state.
God bless Chime(the out going governor). Rochas and his kind should keepon lying and fooling theirselves, nonsense.