Rabiu Omaku
- Promised To Go Extra Mile To Augment September Salary
The executive Chairman of Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Rabo Sani has pleaded with Local Government workers reacting over the delay in the payment of September Salary.
The chairman while briefing the rampaging Local Government civil servants attributed the hiccups that lead to the shortage of salary to over-staffing, and the payment of part of liability he inherited to the tune of N100m from his predecessor.
According to Rabo Sani, “with the commencement of Local Government autonomy our problems surfaces because what we normally do before the autonomy was to augment salaries of few council’s with those with less financial burden”.
“From June, July and August we have to augment our salary with N28m from Value Added Tax (VAT) and the committee on Local Government forbid us to augment salary from VAT ,and insisted that Value Added Tax was meant for project”.
The chairman attested that the council pay money for the installation of street light, over N30m as balance for a 1km road leading to Andoma palace while another 300m road is ongoing, for the month of August, he said the Local Government has a shortfall of N9.2m in September salary.
When asked by Journalists on the way out, Rabo Sani averred that he approached a bank to collect an overdraft but to no avail, saying bank says they won’t grant an overdraft exceeding N20m without the prior knowledge of their head office.
“We are still waiting for a respond from their head office”
The caretaker committee chairman of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employee, Abubakar Rilwan and top ranking security agencies pleaded with the protesting civil servants to bury their hatchet but was turn to deaf ears.
During a question and answer session, Musa Abubakar Ojigo from Agric Department admonished the council chairman to fear God as he said one day Rabo Sani would give account of all his deed.
“Chairman we want to know how many ghost workers were discovered during the last biometric screening, How many died and how many retired from service and how much was our last grant ?
Abubakar Ahmed Ashapa from Personnel Department asked whether it was ghost workers that infiltrated Local Government payroll or human being?
Liman Ashapa from Local Government Education Authority asked whether Value Added Tax was only meant for project ,how many ghost workers do we have in Doma ?
Ahmed Yakubu Akwe from Education asked the chairman the specific number of staff and salary but to no avail.
The presence of the chairman Nigeria Union of Teachers, Ali Saidu is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back as he calm the situation with shocking revelations which was never resisted by the chairman.
Hear him, “chairman we want you to tell Local Government workers what happened to the deduction from Federal Mortgage Bank, June VAT and Union Dues which you denied us, after the last biometric screening the council recover N4.4m from the exercise, where is the money ?
Ali said the entire salary of Doma is not up to N128 million.
In June we got N36 million.
In July is N35 million.
In August we got N30 million.
September is N29 million.
Union dues is N7.3 million.
August shortfall is N9.2 million.
The chairman on Tuesday as at about 11:35am assured universalreportersng.com that workers would see alert before Wednesday.
