Kwara Denies Owing Workers, Pensioners
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| Abdulfattah Ahmed |
The Kwara Government on Wednesday denied owing
salaries and pension arrears.
The Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Demola Banu,
made the denial in a statement issued in Ilorin while reacting to a media
report. Banu stressed that the government was up-to-date
with payment of salaries and pensions to workers and retirees.
The commissioner, however, said that payment of
local government workers was being delayed due to decline in allocations to
local councils from the federation account.
Banu said that the challenge was a reflection of
the current national economic downturn which had limited the capacity of
governments at all levels to meet salary obligations.
He said that the state government had on different
occasions assisted the local councils by augmenting their allocation to enhance
their capacity to pay salaries.
The commissioner said that the government would
use its share of the second tranche of the Paris Club refund, to assist the
councils to clear their salary and pension arrears.
Banu recalled that the state government had
released N3.4 billion to the local councils as their share of the first tranche
of the Paris Club refund.
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