N5bn Paris Club Refund: NULGE confirms credit of LGs' accounts

Date: 2016-12-19

The Kwara State chapter of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), last night confirmed that accounts of all councils in the state have been credited from the Paris Club refund released last week.

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed last week approved the release of one billion naira for the payment of local government salaries from the fund.

Ahmed through a statement from the Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Demola Banu confirmed that the state received five billion naira from the federal government out of the fund.

Following discordant tunes that trailed the decision, the Kwara State House of Assembly directed that the entire amount be used to clear backlog of salaries instead of using part of it to fund other projects.

According to Comrade Abayomi, while speaking with National Pilot on the issue, the payment was made on Friday and the affected workers have started receiving bank alerts.

He added that the released fund was only for augmentation and not for payment of backlogs. Abayomi said the Governor has promised to clear the backlog of affected workers by March next year and they will hold him to that promise.

"The money released is meant to augment our salaries for November and December and not to clear the backlog.

"The payment was made on Friday by 3pm and they started alerting local government workers by 4pm. We are waiting for reports of each local government as regards the payment now.

"We can only get the effect of the money and the payment on Monday. N600m is used to augment November salaries and N800m for December. That means out of the NI billion, after the November augmentation, the remaining fund might not be enough if the state allocation returned low", he added.

He said that workers are still being owed over 8 months and 20 per cent salaries adding that the governor has already promised to clear all "our arrears by March and we are still standing on that promise. So this release is just augmentation".

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Muftau Akanbi Oke     Omoniyi Ayinla     Segun Olawoyin     Olam Food Ingredients     Bareke     BECE     Abdullateef Abdussalam     Bamidele Aluko     Femi Gbajabiamila     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Saliu Alamoyo     Salaudeen Oyewale     SSA Youth     Chief Imam Of Offa     ANCOPPS     Arca Santa     Olatunji Ayeni     Barakat Community Secondary School     Oni Adebayo     Afonja     CACOVID Palliatives     Olatunji Ibrahim     David Oyedepo     Bola Tinubu     Ilota     KWAFFA     Mohammed Saidu     Yusuf Abubakar     IYA ALFA NLA     John Dara     Olokoba     Paul Olawoore     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Zubair Folorunsho Erubu     Nagode     Risikat Lawal     KWASIEC     Abatemi Usman     Hamid Bobboyi     CUTI     NIRSAL     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Ronke Adeyemi     Egbejila     Ilorin Durbar     Saliu Mustapha     MalHub     Akanji     Muhammed Abdullahi     Khairat Gwadabe     Onikijipa     Ishaq Salman     Olabode Towoju     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     Kamoru Kadiri     Modupe Oluwole     Alfa Belgore     Government High School Adeta     Saad Omo\'ya     Kwara Volleyball Association     Toyin Sanusi     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Okin Malt     Elerin Of Adanla     KWASEIC     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Ayodele Shittu     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Sarkin Malamai     Rasheed Jimoh     Ramadhan     Shehu Salau     Alabi Lawal    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Rotimi Atere     Ramadhan     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Tsado Manman     Borgu     Ajibike Katibi     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     Amuda Musbau     Ajidagba     Yakub Ali-Agan     Ado Ibrahim     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Centre For Digital Economy     Awoye     Mashood Dauda     Kulende-UITH     Kwara State Television     Shade Omoniyi     Post Utme     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     KWACOBPA     Afeyin-Olukuta     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Kwara     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Lateef Alagbonsi     Opobiyi     CCEPE     Yoonus Lawal     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Taofeeq Olateju     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Labaeka     Kwara Apc     Rebecca Bake     Bello Bature     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Sherif Sagaya     Akanbi-Oke     Yusuf Lanre Badmas     National Pilot     Salary     Vasolar Consultoria     IF-K     Mufti Of Ilorin     Bashir Badawi     Funmilayo Oniwa     Kamaldeen Gambari     Awwal Jawondo     Kwara State Government     Yaru     Share     Sunday Popo-Ola     Orisa Bridge     Peculiar Allowance     Ileloke     Yusuf Lawal     Abiodun Oyedepo     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Abdulrazaq Sanni     Ojo Fadumila     Oloje     Kehinde Baale     International Vocational Centre     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Umar Adelodun     Manzuma     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Muhammed Abdullahi     REO CAKES     CACOVID Palliatives     Akanji     Harafat E. Mukadam     Saidu Kawu     Aremu Bose Deborah     Fatai Adeniyi Garba