President Buhari urges state governors to pay outstanding salaries before christmas
President Muhammadu Buhari has charged state governors to ensure that they pay all the salaries owed workers before Christmas, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The president gave the charge on Monday when he met with the governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Many states are owing workers several months of salaries of salaries and allowances.
In September, the Federal Government has released N760.17 billion in two branches of the Paris Club Loan Refund to states for outstanding salaries and pensions, but some governors are believed to have spent the cash on other things.
Also in a meeting with traditional rulers sometime ago, President Muhammadu Buhari told traditional rulers at a meeting in Abuja that he was “living with the problems of this country day-by-day, and mostly those of ordinary people.”
According to Buhari, There are Nigerians that haven’t been paid for six months; there are Nigerians that have not been paid their retirement benefits for years.
“I’m appealing to the governors (that was why we voted money; we borrowed money), please make sure anybody under you, pay them because most of them depend on that salary to pay rent and school fees,’’ he said.
