Melaye has called out Nigerian governors owing
civil servants money after receiving huge
amounts from FG.He personally mentioned
Governor Aregbesola’s name,urging him to pay
civil servants their salaries in full both at the
state and LGAs levels to ameliorate the
suffering of our people as directed by the
federal government.Below is what he said and
how Nigerians reacted…
‘The thirty-six states of the Federation
collectively received over $4bn being the over-
deductions on Paris and London Club Loans on
the accounts of State and Local Governments
from February 1990 to March 2002. Nasarawa
State received over N68bn, CBN confirmed.
Details from both the CBN and Federal Ministry
of Finance headquarters showed neighboring
States, Kogi received about N80bn, Plateau and
Benue got N75bn and N91bn respectively.
Meanwhile, the states of Osun and Edo got
N84bn and N82bn respectively.
The monies were credited into the respective
accounts of all the 36 states of Federation on
Monday 21st November, 2016.
While that of Plateau State was paid into a UBA
account (1019894291), that of Nasarawa State
as confirmed from Govt. House was paid into
Fidelity and Skye Banks for State Govt. (N46bn)
and Local Govts. (N22bn) respectively.
Regrettably, all the 36 states governors don’t
want the general public especially civil society
organizations (CSOs) to know about these
monies, hence the secrecy of the payment.
However, approving the disbursement of this
sum of over $4b to all the 36 states in naira,
President Muhammadu Buhari directed the
States Governors to use the monies to settle
the civil servants salaries and welfares.
We hope with this money, Gov. Aregbesola will
pay civil servants their salaries in full both at
the state and LGAs levels to ameliorate the
suffering of our people as directed by the
federal government.
We are calling on EFCC and ICPC to monitor
the spending of these huge $4b disbursed to
the 36 states governors especially that of Osun
State’
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