Salary Areas--- Governors Sit On Bailout Money

Bailout is for payment of salaries —Presidency •
We 'll shut down states that refuse to pay —NLC

Tension is mounting in states that have collected bailout money arranged for them by President Muhammadu Buhari and outstanding salaries still remain unpaid.

A total of 27 states owing several months of workers salaries applied for the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) packaged special soft loan of between N250billion and N300billion. Out of the states that have collected the money, only Kwara has announced using it to settle workers salary arrears.

The mounting tension is against the background of reports that some governors are diverting the bailout money for other purposes outside salary payment which was the stated reason for which the money was made available to the affected states.

The national leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress on Friday told Saturday Tribune that workers had been directed to shut down any state that refuses to settle all outstanding salaries after collecting the bailout funds.
Also, the presidency declared on Friday that settlement of unpaid salaries of state workers was the sole reason the president arranged the soft loans for the states.

Speaking with Saturday Tribune on phone, Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President on Media and Publicity, Mr Laolu Akande said "the president made the intervention with the motive and purpose of alleviating the suffering of state workers who were being owed months of unpaid salaries. We don't want to enter into any argument with any governor on that money ( but) as far as the president is concerned, payment of outstanding salaries is the purpose for which the money is meant.





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