The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala on Wednesday cleared the FG of blame over the inability of some
state governments to pay their workers’ salaries.
Okonjo-Iweala,
in a statement by her Special Adviser on Communications, Paul Nwabuikwu said
the governors of such states should be blamed for the development in their
states because they were told through the Federation Accounts Allocation
Committee to make the issue of wage a priority.
She
explained that despite the 50 per cent drop in gross federally collectible
revenue, the Federal Government had made the issue of workers’ salaries a top
priority in order to ensure that the “people do not feel the negative impact of
the revenue drop on the economy.”
She said in the five paragraph
statement that the states, being one of the three tiers of government that
receive monthly allocations from the Federation Account, should be blamed for
their predicament.
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