Niger State The Most Indebted in Northern Nigeria
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger State has accused the present PDP led government of Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu of distortion within the state civil service and making the state the most indebted in northern Nigeria.
The party, in a statement signed by the Publicity Secretary, Jonathan Vatsa, on Tuesday 15th of July in Minna, alleged that the government will be leaving behind one of the worst civil service in the entire northern Nigeria with low remuneration and low morale.
According to the statement, "It is now a public knowledge that about 30 percent of the state’s monthly allocation is being used to service the N36billion loan which the administration called bond and other numerous loans, making the state the most indebted state in the entire northern Nigeria today.
"Generations yet unborn in the state will surfer this debt burden which the government of Babangida Aliyu have put the state. It is on record that Niger state civil servants are least paid in the region as the government has refused to pay the approved minimum wage to civil servants, instead the governor only merely added N10,000 to their normal salary and called it minimum wage," the statement claimed.
According to the statement "Governor Aliyu, though season civil servant who rose to the position of a permanent secretary in the federal civil service have denied civil servants in the state their entitlements which include, leave grants, promotions and other benefits in the name of saving cost."
Vatsa said that the civil servants in the state had remained at the same grade level since 2009 with no promotion and also denied their annual leave grants since inception of the administration.
"The situation with the civil servants at the local government level could be better imagine than experienced as over 30 percent of them had their names removed from the pay role of the government in the name of staff auditing" he said.
The Publicity secretary of APC said "Despite all these frustration of the civil servants in the state, the administration of Governor Babangida Aliyu has found it difficult to pay salary if not for the intervention of SURE-P in the state which contribute well over N230million every month to augment the salary".
"SURE-P has taken over the completion of all abandoned projects by the government in the state and all government functions and activities of government are now being financed by the SURE-P and the Ministry for local government" the statement added.
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According to the statement, "It is now a public knowledge that about 30 percent of the state’s monthly allocation is being used to service the N36billion loan which the administration called bond and other numerous loans, making the state the most indebted state in the entire northern Nigeria today.
"Generations yet unborn in the state will surfer this debt burden which the government of Babangida Aliyu have put the state. It is on record that Niger state civil servants are least paid in the region as the government has refused to pay the approved minimum wage to civil servants, instead the governor only merely added N10,000 to their normal salary and called it minimum wage," the statement claimed.
According to the statement "Governor Aliyu, though season civil servant who rose to the position of a permanent secretary in the federal civil service have denied civil servants in the state their entitlements which include, leave grants, promotions and other benefits in the name of saving cost."
Vatsa said that the civil servants in the state had remained at the same grade level since 2009 with no promotion and also denied their annual leave grants since inception of the administration.
"The situation with the civil servants at the local government level could be better imagine than experienced as over 30 percent of them had their names removed from the pay role of the government in the name of staff auditing" he said.
The Publicity secretary of APC said "Despite all these frustration of the civil servants in the state, the administration of Governor Babangida Aliyu has found it difficult to pay salary if not for the intervention of SURE-P in the state which contribute well over N230million every month to augment the salary".
"SURE-P has taken over the completion of all abandoned projects by the government in the state and all government functions and activities of government are now being financed by the SURE-P and the Ministry for local government" the statement added.
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Niger State The Most Indebted in Northern Nigeria
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