Fayose Denies Owing Three Month Salaries, Reveals The Only Time He Failed To Pay

Governor Ayo Fayose’s government has reacted on the supposed indebtedness to workers in the State.The state says only May 2015 salary was being owed by his government. 

Special Assistant to the governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, on Wednesday said the only salary yet to be paid by the state was that of May 2015.

Governor Ayodele Fayose

Olayinka claimed the past All Progressives Congress (APC) government of Dr Kayode Fayemi refused to pay August and September, 2014 salary despite receiving allocations for the two months.

The governor’s aide added that the August 2014 salaries have been paid. He said the state was working on how to pay the September salaries.

On the unpaid May salaries Olayinka said: “Allocation of May that was received was not enough to pay salary, leaving the government with the option of waiting for June allocation that is expected to be released next week and the moment that is done, workers will get their May salary.”

He continued; “It is also important to point out that apart from the shortfall in the allocation coming to the State from the federation account; the gross mismanagement of the State finances by the immediate past APC government is responsible for the present parlous state of the State finances.

“As at the time we assumed office, unpaid Bank loan was N15, 831,613,425.62 while outstanding payment from the N25bn bond was N26, 749,796,784.75, making N42.6bn debt from bank loans and bond alone! N21, 286,126,749 was outstanding payment to road contractors while N5, 137,888,224.37 was outstanding emoluments to State Public Servants.

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“The State was able to meet up with payment of salary because of the six months moratorium gotten from financial institutions from which the immediate past government obtained loans.

“Painfully, these credit facilities were not used to execute income-generating projects, and the repercussion of the financial recklessness of the past administration is the parlous economic situation of the State now.

“However, with the cooperation of the people, especially the workers, the government will continue to strive to rescue the State from the financial predicament that it was plunged into by the immediate past government.”

For months now, state workers have been complaining of months of unpaid salaries and allowances. Many governor have blamed the situation on the dwindling federal  allocations.

To manage the dwindling financial resources in states, some governors and state lawmakers have began taking a paycut so as to use their allowances to pay staffs.

Governor Muhammadu Umaru Jibrilla Bindo of Adamawa state has promised to take a paycut while, Nasir El-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, says he would cut his and his deputy, Mr Barnabas Bala’s, salaries by 50% until the economic situation in the state improved.

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