Nasarawa Assembly uncovers financial abnormalities in LG system

The Nasarawa state house of Assembly committee investigating the nonpayment of June salary to local government staff and other unnecessary deductions Monday, discovered series of financial recklessness in the local government system in the state.

Speaker of the House Ibrahim Balarabe, who revealed this during the house proceedings in Lafia, explained that names of retired and deceased staff continue to exist in the payment voucher of local governments and same in development areas.

“This report revealed 13 areas of concern and anomalies such as indiscriminate promotions and implementations of promotions, duplication of names in the pay vouchers,” he said.

He also revealed that the committee had find out that by the allocation of June 2019, only four local government in the state can comfortably pay their salary 100 per cent, while the other nine local governments cannot pay due to  their huge wage bills.

He therefore, gave additional three weeks for the committee to do a thorough job on the issue in order to bring total sanity to local government system while urging them to find a lasting solution to the problems of local government system in the state in the interest of peace and development.

Earlier, chairman of the committee Mohammed Alkal  said there were a lot of discoveries made by the committee while discharging its assignment.

On July 16, Nasarawa State house of Assembly set up six-man committee to investigate the finances of the state ministry of local government and chieftaincy affairs over nonpayment of June salary to local government staff and other unnecessary deduction of local government funds in the state.

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