Dino Melaye Urges Aregbesola To Pay Worker’s Salaries

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Controversial senator, Dino Melaye, a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, representing Kogi West has called on all state governors to use the funds received from the Federal Government to pay salaries of their workers.

The senator who via his official Facebook page posted the sums each state collected, however, singled out the Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola to pay the salaries he owed workers in order to ameliorate their suffering in this economic dispensation.

He also called on the EFCC and ICPC to monitor how Osun State spend the money it received.

The statement reads: “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, directed the States Governors to use the monies to settle the civil servants salaries and welfare.

“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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