IT’S SAD STATES ARE STILL OWING SALARIES – FG
IT’S SAD
STATES ARE STILL OWING SALARIES – FG
The Federal Government has asked State governments to stop
blackmailing it over non-payment of workers salaries.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on National
Assembly Matters (Senate), Sen. Ita Enang, gave the advice
when he featured at the News Agency of Nigeria’s Forum in Abuja.
He said in spite of bailout funds and Paris Club refunds
paid to states, some of them are still owing salaries.
He stated that the bailouts were given to the states out of
concern of the Federal Government for the workers, given the level of
outstanding salaries and pensions to them.
“The President is always very positively emotional when it
gets to the welfare of workers and other citizens of the country.
“He has been doing whatever he can to ensure that
those who are working get paid by providing the bailout because when the
workers get paid, they will generate something that will also affect the
unemployed.
“But, the way some governors have used it has made it very
dampening,’’ he said.
He asked Nigerians to always question their governors about
funds.
