₦airaland Forum

SaiBuharii:
Vote for change, Bayelsans refused. We do not know whether if we change, things will get better but to know, we have to Change.

which change? Kogi is owing, osun n fg are owing and our politicians will never put d ppl b4 except during campaign n election. Buhari like all these govs who're owing their workers have never delayed their allowances yet they all preach patience. It's not their fault but ours who are so foolish dat we attack ourselves over those who don't care if we die or live.

Even with 13% derivative Dickson cannot pay salaries. What a shame. Bayelsa is a small state but it gets more than Lagos from the federation yet how many urban areas have been developed?

Their governors stole their money, they would say leave him alone, he is our son. Dividends of PDP. Enjoy.

OKKO:
I work in the sate, I was paid my January salary last week. Govt. is owing me 2 months not 5. However, lack of economic direction by FG has worsen the situation. Devalue Naira so that states get more allocation and pay staff. I have been parking in fuel cue since 3 days now. The line never reach me.

This one is still blaming FG, una no even get shame. Smh

barcaboi:
oga forget that talk....when it was Osuns turn no1 wanted to listen to him and this is a state with little or no way to generate IGR...Bayelsa has fuel proceeds, less population and more.....come off d excuse

Osun should have diversified from day one. The service in Osun is also bloated....and in fact Bisi Akande sacked excess workers before 2003...which got him voted out.

What is the penalty for work without pay?

SaiBuharii:
Vote for change, Bayelsans refused. We do not know whether if we change, things will get better but to know, we have to Change.

C dis mumu, change kor balance ni, d change wey make nigerians enter one chance u no even dey shame, mumu pple

seunmsg:
Where is Ben Bruce, the common sense senator when you need him? He's busy tweeting trash on twitter while his constituents are begging to survive. When will he donate his salary to help the suffering Bayelsa worker?

If this is about Osun state, wailers will descend heavily on the thread calling Aregbesola so many names. Oil rich Bayelsa has not paid workers since November 2015 and nobody seems to be concerned.

and they cast their votes for him again @ de last elections for him to continue to owe them. So Y are dey complaining?

OKKO:
I work in the sate, I was paid my January salary last week. Govt. is owing me 2 months not 5. However, lack of economic direction by FG has worsen the situation. Devalue Naira so that states get more allocation and pay staff. I have been parking in fuel cue since 3 days now. The line never reach me.

Immediately I saw devalue Naira, I knew you not a true bayelsan, an enemy of progress & a not very intelligent at the same time!!

Not only devalue, it is undervalue!! Mtcheew!

NewsPoacher:
http://www.punchng.com/unpaid-salaries-bayelsa-workers-turn-to-begging-for-survival/


Mynd44, Lalasticlala

Bayelsa is PDP, PDP is Bayelsa.

What is really wrong with Nigerian governors? We know our economy is week at the moment but these guys are not helping matters

seunmsg:
Where is Ben Bruce, the common sense senator when you need him? He's busy tweeting trash on twitter while his constituents are begging to survive. When will he donate his salary to help the suffering Bayelsa worker?

If this is about Osun state, wailers will descend heavily on the thread calling Aregbesola so many names. Oil rich Bayelsa has not paid workers since November 2015 and nobody seems to be concerned.

Bayelsa is challenging Osun state in the poverty contest!! Place your bets now.

OKKO:
I work in the sate, I was paid my January salary last week. Govt. is owing me 2 months not 5. However, lack of economic direction by FG has worsen the situation. Devalue Naira so that states get more allocation and pay staff. I have been parking in fuel cue since 3 days now. The line never reach me.

I tire for some people mentality, all you think of is more allocation. What is the economic direction of Bayelsa state? You think governors are just there to distribute collected fg allocation.

barcaboi:
oga forget that talk....when it was Osuns turn no1 wanted to listen to him and this is a state with little or no way to generate IGR...Bayelsa has fuel proceeds, less population and more.....come off d excuse

Don't mind them. Bruv, any objective person knows that Aregbesola started well and meant well for Osun. He was just overwhelmed by the reality of how Osun is a very poor civil servant State , that probably should not have been created, which got only drastically poorer when oil price crashed. Aregbe is an intelligent man aware of the problems but events, beyond his control, overtook his good intentions. For example, Aregbesola played no part in making Osun and many other Nigerian States civil servant enclaves where the Nigerian government, aberrantly, is the biggest employer of labour. In many productive and successful nations of the world it is the SME (small to medium enterprise sector) that is the biggest employer of labour. Aregbe came in and tried to change this sad scenario. He even personally tried a socio-capitalist model of involving the Osun government in directly enabling the growth of the SME sector and we saw this with the example of the setting up of the Omoluabi garment factory.

http://osun.gov.ng/gallery/commissioning-of-omoluabi-garment-factory/

Osun , despite Aregbe's lofty plans, got into trouble when oil plans crashed to embarrass a Governor who had borrowed funds and leveraged aggressive development plans on the ability of the State to keep servicing her recurrent expenditure in the short term and before the state became more self-financing from all the efforts to diverse her economy, generate more IGR for Osun and make her less dependent on FG allocation. This is not a bad plan at all and Aregbe cannot be blamed for a crash in oil prices stemming from unpredictable events that had nothing to do with Nigeria.

Yet Nigerians, with a large population of bitter, religiously intolerant and ethnocentric folks who use everything as an opportunity to indulge their prejudice against ethnic groups they hate, chose to make this a Yoruba, APC and Moslem problem. Now the reality is manifesting which is that no Nigerian State will be sparred a salary crisis if oil price continue to be very low. Since many Nigerians choose to always play the tribal card and laugh at the misfortune of others , instead of learn from it, then problems will show up at their door they will not see coming because they were too busy laughing at "Yoloba" and "ab0ki" over things like salary woes without realising that in the current Nigeria, with the dire state of affairs, all Nigerian States, despite what braggart Governors and ethnocentric 'Voltrons' are saying, are only weeks or months away from debilitating bankruptcy that will see them struggle to pay salaries.

I remember the fuel subsidy removal crisis under GEJ when the likes of Femi Falana organised protest to say it is wrong for Nigerians, when their nation is one of the biggest producer of crude oil in the world, to pay exorbitant amount for PMS (premium motor spirit) when economically more stable and successful nations like Saudi Arabia ensured their citizens benefited from the crude oil endowment of their nation through low pump price for refined oil and good infrastructural development. It was mainly our brothers from the SE, and posters can check the archives, who bragged on Nairaland that " parasite yolobas and Ab0kis" are lazy and poor and that they were prepared to pay any price charged for oil as they were "independent rich folks who do not need the government for anything". An opportunity for a people to unite against cruel and corrupt leaders , whether Igbo or Yoruba, who take everything and give the people nothing got turned into an egotistic bragfest of "we are better and richer than you" , because of ethnic bigotry, when the simple point of the protests was that the Nigerian government is shafting us all in comparison to how other major oil producing nations treat their people.

Nigerians are a people who always choose to make what is simple very difficult. We will then have to learn the hard way and only when trouble shows up at our own door.

barcaboi:
now na FG u go blame....pls explain why FG shd devalue the naira.....bayelsa is an oil rich state with 1.7m pple and enuf bailout fund from FG....IGR dey too...what else is stopping the gov?

FG is cheating the states by exchanging the foreign earning at N 199 per dollar and shearing to states while actually it is upto N320 in reality.

If FG comes down to reality, the amount of allocation sheared in Naira will multiple by 3 at least states can pay salary.

Infact NLC should move for that because price or thing has gone up twice or thrice in reality whiles salaries are constant or even unpaid. Eg a bag of rice formerly N 7000 to N 8,500 is now N 16,000...Fuel about N 250 at filling station cause of poor forex policy, investor shy away, IGR depleting, both FG and state economy in mess.

For people saying vote for change, Sylva APC collected 2 straight bonds of N50billion each (total of 100 bil), major reason was to clear wage bill including salary...he never paid a dine. Go and study is EFCC charges it is an open secret in Bayelsa. Dickson inherited it and has been paying it will finish by 2018.

I don't hold brief for any politician but I was receiving my salary promptly and even 40K extra allowance monthly from the overhead cost, where I work, until the economy of the country nose dived.

If the data available is true, Bayelsa monthly wage bill is N4.6 billion, the state has many social welfare interventions b4 virtually all families in Bayelsa get something from the state govt. monthly either direct or indirect, ghost workers did not help matters too.

Last allocation was less than N 2billon then how can he pay wage bill of N 4.6 bill monthly. No company here...pure water used here was brought from Delta State b4. Terrain and oil exploration has really affected the lands and waters, ppl are over dependent on govt.

Now U complain of fuel cue, but in Bayelsa ppl live in creek that U take 3.5 hours on flying boat to connect after getting your fuel in Yenagoa.

OKKO:
I work in the sate, I was paid my January salary last week. Govt. is owing me 2 months not 5. However, lack of economic direction by FG has worsen the situation. Devalue Naira so that states get more allocation and pay staff. I have been parking in fuel cue since 3 days now. The line never reach me.

Liar.

OKKO:
FG is cheating the states by exchanging the foreign earning at N 199 per dollar and shearing to states while actually it is upto N320 in reality.

If FG comes down to reality, the amount of allocation sheared in Naira will multiple by 3 at least states can pay salary.

Infact NLC should move for that because price or thing has gone up twice or thrice in reality whiles salaries are constant or even unpaid. Eg a bag of rice formerly N 7000 to N 8,500 is now N 16,000...Fuel about N 250 at filling station cause of poor forex policy, investor shy away, IGR depleting, both FG and state economy in mess.

For people saying vote for change, Sylva APC collected 2 straight bonds of N50billion each (total of 100 bil), major reason was to clear wage bill including salary...he never paid a dine. Go and study is EFCC charges it is an open secret in Bayelsa. Dickson inherited it and has been paying it will finish by 2018.

I don't hold brief for any politician but I was receiving my salary promptly and even 40K extra allowance monthly from the overhead cost, where I work, until the economy of the country nose dived.

If the data available is true, Bayelsa monthly wage bill is N4.6 billion, the state has many social welfare interventions b4 virtually all families in Bayelsa get something from the state govt. monthly either direct or indirect, ghost workers did not help matters too.

Last allocation was less than N 2billon then how can he pay wage bill of N 4.6 bill monthly. No company here...pure water used here was brought from Delta State b4. Terrain and oil exploration has really affected the lands and waters, ppl are over dependent on govt.

Now U complain of fuel cue, but in Bayelsa ppl live in creek that U take 3.5 hours on flying boat to connect after getting your fuel in Yenagoa.

kikikiki.....nawa o....dats d latest excuse...I scuff

OKKO:
FG is cheating the states by exchanging the foreign earning at N 199 per dollar and shearing to states while actually it is upto N320 in reality.

If FG comes down to reality, the amount of allocation sheared in Naira will multiple by 3 at least states can pay salary.

Infact NLC should move for that because price or thing has gone up twice or thrice in reality whiles salaries are constant or even unpaid. Eg a bag of rice formerly N 7000 to N 8,500 is now N 16,000...Fuel about N 250 at filling station cause of poor forex policy, investor shy away, IGR depleting, both FG and state economy in mess.

For people saying vote for change, Sylva APC collected 2 straight bonds of N50billion each (total of 100 bil), major reason was to clear wage bill including salary...he never paid a dine. Go and study is EFCC charges it is an open secret in Bayelsa. Dickson inherited it and has been paying it will finish by 2018.

I don't hold brief for any politician but I was receiving my salary promptly and even 40K extra allowance monthly from the overhead cost, where I work, until the economy of the country nose dived.

If the data available is true, Bayelsa monthly wage bill is N4.6 billion, the state has many social welfare interventions b4 virtually all families in Bayelsa get something from the state govt. monthly either direct or indirect, ghost workers did not help matters too.

Last allocation was less than N 2billon then how can he pay wage bill of N 4.6 bill monthly. No company here...pure water used here was brought from Delta State b4. Terrain and oil exploration has really affected the lands and waters, ppl are over dependent on govt.

Now U complain of fuel cue, but in Bayelsa ppl live in creek that U take 3.5 hours on flying boat to connect after getting your fuel in Yenagoa.

why ddnt GEJ order the clean up of the land in 6yrs.....u failed 2 mention d 13% from oil proceeds.....less population and yet u come up wt dis?

Quakertellicus1:
Or raising taxes.

Most states have a bloated workforce. Its just that any governor that sacks workers knows that he/she is politically doomed like Akande of Osun who sacked teachers

Gbawe:
Don't mind them. Bruv, any objective person knows that Aregbesola started well and meant well for Osun. He was just overwhelmed by the reality of how Osun is a very poor civil servant State , that probably should not have been created, which got only drastically poorer when oil price crashed. Aregbe is an intelligent man aware of the problems but events, beyond his control, overtook his good intentions. For example, Aregbesola played no part in making Osun and many other Nigerian States civil servant enclaves where the Nigerian government, aberrantly, is the biggest employer of labour. In many productive and successful nations of the world it is the SME (small to medium enterprise sector) that is the biggest employer of labour. Aregbe came in and tried to change this sad scenario. He even personally tried a socio-capitalist model of involving the Osun government in directly enabling the growth of the SME sector and we saw this with the example of the setting up of the Omoluabi garment factory.

http://osun.gov.ng/gallery/commissioning-of-omoluabi-garment-factory/

Osun , despite Aregbe's lofty plans, got into trouble when oil plans crashed to embarrass a Governor who had borrowed funds and leveraged aggressive development plans on the ability of the State to keep servicing her recurrent expenditure in the short term and before the state became more self-financing from all the efforts to diverse her economy, generate more IGR for Osun and make her less dependent on FG allocation. This is not a bad plan at all and Aregbe cannot be blamed for a crash in oil prices stemming from unpredictable events that had nothing to do with Nigeria.

Yet Nigerians, with a large population of bitter, religiously intolerant and ethnocentric folks who use everything as an opportunity to indulge their prejudice against ethnic groups they hate, chose to make this a Yoruba, APC and Moslem problem. Now the reality is manifesting which is that no Nigerian State will be sparred a salary crisis if oil price continue to be very low. Since many Nigerians choose to always play the tribal card and laugh at the misfortune of others , instead of learn from it, then problems will show up at their door they will not see coming because they were too busy laughing at "Yoloba" and "ab0ki" over things like salary woes without realising that in the current Nigeria, with the dire state of affairs, all Nigerian States, despite what braggart Governors and ethnocentric 'Voltrons' are saying, are only weeks or months away from debilitating bankruptcy that will see them struggle to pay salaries.

I remember the fuel subsidy removal crisis under GEJ when the likes of Femi Falana organised protest to say it is wrong for Nigerians, when their nation is one of the biggest producer of crude oil in the world, to pay exorbitant amount for PMS (premium motor spirit) when economically more stable and successful nations like Saudi Arabia ensured their citizens benefited from the crude oil endowment of their nation through low pump price for refined oil and good infrastructural development. It was mainly our brothers from the SE, and posters can check the archives, who bragged on Nairaland that " parasite yolobas and Ab0kis" are lazy and poor and that they were prepared to pay any price charged for oil as they were "independent rich folks who do not need the government for anything". An opportunity for a people to unite against cruel and corrupt leaders , whether Igbo or Yoruba, who take everything and give the people nothing got turned into an egotistic bragfest of "we are better and richer than you" , because of ethnic bigotry, when the simple point of the protests was that the Nigerian government is shafting us all in comparison to how other major oil producing nations treat their people.

Nigerians are a people who always choose to make what is simple very difficult. We will then have to learn the hard way and only when trouble shows up at our own door.

respect to you 4 a deep analysis......fact is what u stated

BizBayo:
State government is the most useless level of govt in Nigeria. Bayelsa to me ought to have been one of greatest states in Nigeria. FG has never owned them their monthly allocation (including other states) even right from the days of GEJ. PMB came and even bailed them out, yet the workers are been owned. Even with all the 13 percent excess.

I guess the Bayelsa governor has put their money in fixed deposit so that he would reap from where he did not sow.

Shame to all the governors who makes business with public funds. You won't be there forever.

When i saw "owned" at first i thought it was a typo error but u kept repeating the error, u cant even spell simple being.........my friend go back to school and learn how to spell before u comment on nairaland. "The workers are been owned" lol

OKKO:
I work in the sate, I was paid my January salary last week. Govt. is owing me 2 months not 5. However, lack of economic direction by FG has worsen the situation. Devalue Naira so that states get more allocation and pay staff. I have been parking in fuel cue since 3 days now. The line never reach me.

nonsense. I fit give e-slap for saying d naira should be devalued.... take ur time oooo

A state worker said he's being owed 2 months salaries only.Some LG staff are being owed as much as 10½ months while some STATE WORKERS are being owed 4 months e.g. the state owned microfinance bank.

Is it not Bayelsa again? money miss road politicians being worshipped by their followers.

Nobody should complain.

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During Timipre Sylva's Governemt, things wasn't like this..though he's also a tough man but, not to the extent of not paying his workers for months.