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Buhari Didn’t Direct Us to Pay All Salary Arrears Before Christmas – Governors

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: November 29, 2017
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President Muhammadu Buhari never directed governors to pay all salary arrears before Christmas, governors have said.

This is even as the governors have pledged to work assiduously towards ensuring that they make workers happy by paying their emoluments before the commencement of the Yuletide season.

In a statement by head, Media and Public Affairs of the Nigerian Governors Forum, Abulrazque B. Barkindo, said this is following the instruction by President Buhari that governors should be paid what is due to their states to ensure that workers spend Christmas with money in their pockets and a smile on their faces.

He said this presidential directive was issued at a meeting between the governors and the president which held at the Aso Rock Villa, on Monday.

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He said the governors had expressed profound gratitude to the president for his magnanimity in hearkening to the needs of the states and understanding with them towards helping to solve some of the intractable financial problems of governance, top among which is the lingering problem of workers’ salaries.

They pledged, therefore, to rise up to the occasion collectively, as a mark of their respect for President Muhammadu Buhari and empathy for the workers by paying before Christmas, once the Finance, the Budget and Planning Ministries and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) disburse the monies owed them, as instructed.

The president had remarked that, “I will not be saying much because the responsible ministers are here: Finance, Budget and Planning and the Central Bank of Nigeria. I request you to appoint your own team to come and sit down with them (referring to the governors).

“This should be done, not only for next year’s budget but for this Christmas. The minister of Finance, Budget and Planning and the Central Bank should sit down with you in a sub-committee to see how much can be released before Christmas,” the president instructed.

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Barkindo said, “No mention of all workers arrears, was ever made by President Muhammadu Buhari.

“For Nigerians without sources other than their salary, I am concerned that workers should be able to pay rent, school fees, buy drugs and take care of their families. I am so much concerned that people should have something to eat for Christmas, President Muhammadu Buhari declared.”

According to him, the governors had appealed to the president to once again authorise the Finance Ministry and the other officials to hasten the payment of the remainder of the Paris and London Club loan refunds as they had factored the monies into their 2018 budgets.

“President Buhari’s instruction that the money be paid before Christmas, however, draws its background from the series of delays in the previous disbursements to the states by the Finance Ministry, which by commission or omission had exacerbated and indeed increased the number of months that workers are owed salaries.

“For example, the first bailout that President Buhari approved was not paid until October, four months after the president had given approval for the money to be paid. It was the same practice with the first tranche of the Paris-London Club repayment, which was approved in mid 2016 but took until December 2016 to hit the states’ accounts.

“It is imperative to add that the Paris–London funds were legitimate funds of the states and not loans as several sources had thought,” he said.

Barring any such happenstances, he added that governors, who are equally very worried about their workers’ plights, are ready to wipe away workers tears by paying their emoluments before Christmas.

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