Use Accrued Savings To Offset February Salaries – Nasarawa Governor Sule – Council Chairmen
By Rabiu Omaku, Lafia
Local government areas in Nasarawa State have commenced the payment of salaries to workers after Governor Abdullahi Sule gave the nod for them to use their accrued savings to offset February salaries.
Governor Sule made this known while presiding over the first State Executive Council meeting with his new commissioners at the Government House.
According to the Governor, while local government areas in the country are unable to pay workers salary in February as a result of ongoing reforms initiated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), his initial advice for local government chairmen to initiate savings from their monthly subvention is finally paying off as the councils are now falling back on their savings to pay salaries.
He said the state can not afford to wait while the CBN finalizes on its strategy to remit funds directly to the councils, especially that Christians and Muslims are both observing the Lent and Ramadan respectively.
“I want to sincerely apologize to our Local Government workers in the State. We can not continue to hold on. We discussed this morning and I am sure by the end of today some of them would begin to see their salaries.
“Not because we have received the money but because of the savings the Local Government made.
“When we kept telling the Local Government that it was necessary to have the savings, a lot of people didn’t understand me. Now it is the saving grace and they are the happiest people today.
“They are going to use their savings to pay salaries,” he stated.
The Governor particularly expressed satisfaction thar the councils are not only paying the February salaries but also implementing the new N70,000 minimum wage.
