Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa state has vowed that his administration would ensure that local government areas in the state pay their workers full salaries before month end.
Sule gave the assurance while speaking at a political event organised by All Progressive Congress (APC) stakeholders in Nasarawa west senatorial zone where he also tasked electorates to vote out any local government chairman seeking reelection and did not perform, especially in payment of salaries.
“Even though we have been able to pay our workers full salaries and always before the 29th of each month, we will not rest until local government areas are able to pay their workers full salaries and before the end of the month,” he stated.
He said his administration is working hard towards addressing certain observed lapses in the financial activities of the councils.
The governor described as unacceptable, a situation where the councils could not pay a pensioner whose monthly wage is a paltry N15, 000, having spent the better part of his or her life serving the state.
“In 2012, there was an embargo against employment. Since then, some workers must have died, retired or resigned. Instead of the wage bill to reduce, like that of the state, the wage bill of the local government areas continues to increase,” the governor said.
He therefore urged the people of the state to support his administration in order to introduce sanity into the financial conduct of the local government areas.
He warned local government chairmen that it was no longer tenable for them to solely depend on monthly subvention from the federal government but that they must evolve means of generating internal revenue.
