One, the ABCs of government is the civil service, the civil servants. As we speak, they are on strike. A state that cannot pay the minimum wage, can afford to charter a plane for the governor from Lagos to Ibadan airport – not Lagos to Osun – at the cost of N400 million! A state that cannot pay the minimum wage can afford to pay N1 million as hotel bills for Lagos guests. These are facts that are sacred, which they have no answer to because it is the government that approved the money. A state that cannot pay salaries, cannot afford the minimum wage, but can afford to buy helicopter of over N7 billion. That is unnecessary in our state. A state that cannot pay salaries can afford to award a federal government road initially cost at N7.7 billion at N19 billion. A state that cannot pay salaries can afford to award Western Bypass road for N15 billion, when the original costing was N7.2 billion, to contractors that are unknown. A state that cannot pay salaries can afford to ask the governor, who is a technician, to go and deliver lectures at Harvard University in American and spend over N200 million of state funds. A state that cannot afford salaries, last month they got about N10.9 billion, but told the people they got only N2 billion. All monies paid to states are published in the newspapers.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:06 +0000
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