₦airaland Forum

SmartChoices:
Reason I don't vote, campaign or participate in elections.

Tazdroid:
Since 2014, no pay in full?

What kind of subhumans do we elect into power sef?

This is what happens when a state doesn't rely more on its Internally Generated Revenue and strives to maximize same.

Cash lodged in Rep’s account through proxy
EFCC places restriction on NGF’s N8b, $80m
Detectives have traced $ 3 million of the controversial London-Paris Club loan refund to a governor, The Nation learnt yesterday.
The cash is believed to be part of the N19billion illegally deducted from the refund by the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), according to Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) sources.

The cash has been found in the account of a member of the House of Representatives who got it through a proxy, the lawmaker’s brother. Both were not available for comments.
The $3million is being spent on building a 100-room hotel in Lagos, which the governor may forfeit to the Federal Government.
Also, the EFCC has placed a restriction on N8billion and $80million in the naira and dollar accounts of the NGF.


The Presidency has released N1. 266.44trillion to the 36 states in the past one year. The cash includes N713.70billion special intervention funds to states.
Following protests by states against over deduction for external debt service between 1995 and 2002, President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the release of N522.74 billion (first tranche) to states as refund pending reconciliation of records.


Each state was entitled to a cap of N14.5 billion being 25% of the amounts claimed.
Finance Minister Mrs. Kemi Adeosun said the payment would enable states to offset outstanding salaries and pension which had been “causing considerable hardship”.
The governors sought for the refund to states and local governments at a meeting with President Buhari on May 24, last year.


A source, who spoke in confidence with our correspondent, said: “The EFCC is still investigating the N19billion allegedly diverted from the loan refund. The commission has so far interrogated 15 companies, more than 10 individuals and over eight bureaux de change used to divert the cash.


“The latest bend of the investigation is the discovery of $3million linked with another governor who benefited from the illegal deduction. The governor had engaged a member of the House of Representatives(who was also a former commissioner) to launder his share.
”The lawmaker was said to have wired the $3million into his brother’s account before moving it into his own.


“Upon interrogation, one of the suspects admitted that the cash was for the ongoing construction of a 100-room hotel for the governor.
“About $500,000 of the $3million has been recovered by the EFCC. It is a scam in which many people benefited and a sizeable number of proxies used to launder the funds,” the source said.


The $3million was transferred to the lawmaker for the governor from the $86million in the NGF’s domiciliary account.
“We will do our best to recover the already diverted part of the $3million. We may also apply for the forfeiture of the hotel to the Federal Government,” the source said, pleading not to be named so as not to jeopardise the investigation.
The $86million is said to be for the payment of consultants who worked for the refund for the 35 states. But none of the consultants has been paid. Some of them have already gone to court.
The source added: “The EFCC has placed a Post No Debit restriction on the NGF’s account with N8billion and domiciliary account with $80million.


“Out of the $86million, $3million was wired to the governor through a proxy and another $2million shared out.
“The EFCC is ready to lift the restriction on the two accounts of the NGF on a condition that the consultants and legal advisers who deserve to be paid will be given what they are entitled to in line with the agreement signed with the NGF.


“We want the NGF to involve the EFCC in the disbursement to avoid another diversion of the cash. As it is now, consultants and legal advisers are complaining that they are being shortchanged by the governors.”
The EFCC had earlier traced about N500million, which was meant for a consultant, to the account of a governor.
The cash has been retrieved.

post: The governor said this Thursday in Abuja at the National Secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) while fielding questions from journalists.

Asked to comment on the status of salary payment in the state, Bello said, “I will simply refer you to Kogi state website so that you can get the fact from there. www.kogistate.gov.ng. You are going to see from there. Four months arrears owed by the previous administration have been cleared. Month by month, Kogi state has paid its workers salaries as workers are being cleared.

“Those that are not cleared surely cannot be paid. If you go to our website, you will see month by month, MDA by MDA and those that have not been cleared have reasons why they have not yet been cleared and that has been there so, go and get your fact from there.”

He said the meeting held with Chief Tony Momoh-led reconciliation committee for Kogi State went very well, stating that under his leadership, one indivisible state is feasible.
The governor also said that the meeting focused on the progress of the party as well as the administration and progress in Kogi state.

post: The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kogi State University (KSU) Anyigba, chapter, has said that about 200 of its members were screened out of service during the recently concluded staff verification exercise.

The Chairman, ASUU-KSU, Dr. Daniel Aina, who made this known, recently, while addressing journalists, in Lokoja, said the ongoing strike could only be suspended when all issues relating to arrears of salaries, 2015 employment, contract and sabbatical staff were resolved.

The union also said government must resume the monthly instalmental payment of the 2009-2014 arrears of the Earned Academic Allowances (EAA).

According to them, “the Kogi state university management must pay up the outstanding balance of the 2014/2015 arrears of the EAA.” said Aina.

The union, which commended the government for reconstituting the governing council of the university, however, said the more serious issue of payment of arrears of salaries to all categories of its members had not been addressed.

The chairman said the union had, at the inaugural meeting of the governing council appealed to it to expedite action on the resolution of uncleared staff and payment of arrears of salaries.

“This was to create a pathway for the amicable resolution of all outstanding issues before the April 24, 2017. ASUU’s suggestion would seem to have been jettisoned. This is because while staff of other tertiary institutions in Kogi state who have been on strike, have received their February and March 2017 salaries, those of KSU, Anyigba are yet to be paid.

“Since 2014, the Kogi State government has never paid the staff monthly salary in full. The university administration has had to augment the recurrent short falls from its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). Even this amputated salary wage bill has become erratic.

“The government must be told that the propaganda on salary payment is a ruse because artisans, traders and the business environment of the state do not enjoy the patronage that naturally flourishes when workers are paid.

“It is pathetic that economic activities have been seriously hampered in Kogi state due to the non-payment of salaries occasioned by the long-drawn and tortuous staff screening exercises. Many parents whose children and wards have been at home since the strike action commenced, are yet to be paid their salaries.

“To date, several of our members have not received salary since June 2016. In fact, all staff of Kogi State University, Anyigba have not received their February and March 2017 salaries. Neither the government nor the university administration has provided,” Aina stressed.

The lecturers expressed concerns over the consistently deteriorating working conditions of the academic staff of the university that had led to mass exodus of staff. It also noted a sharp reduction in the funding of the institution by government, regretting that infrastructure and staff development in the school have been left in the hands of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) and the NEEDS assessment.

The union however condemned the disruption of the peaceful protest embarked upon by students of the university, their arrests, rough handling and detention by security agents while trying to draw government’s attention to their plight.

shamecurls:
And my future wife is somewhere busy giving somebody head and doggy



She sha shud just do fast......

Junior is tired of waiting in heaven

Mynd44:
https://www.nairaland.com/3732021/freeaustinokai-nigerians-demand-release-arrested