Politics
LG Workers Shutdown Council Over Unpaid Salaries In Nasarawa
Employees of Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa state has shutdown the council over unpaid salaries.
It was also gathered that the angry workers also locked the council boss, Rabo Sani, inside the council.
The angry workers accused the council boss of exposing them to unnecessary hardship, adding that, they have not been paid their September salary.
Meanwhile, the council boss in his defence while addressing the aggrieved workers, attributed the problem to the N100m liabilities left behind by his predecessor. He also explained that part of the liability was due to the fact that the council was over-staffed.
Sani said, “With the commencement of local government autonomy, our problems surface because what we normally do before the autonomy was to augment salaries of few councils with those with less financial burden.
“From June, July and August, we have to augment our salary with N28m from Value Added Tax and the committee on Local Government forbid us to augment salary from VAT and insisted that VAT was meant for project.”
Sani further revealed that the council paid money for the installation of street lights, over N30m for a 1km road leading to the Andoma’s palace while another 300m road project was ongoing.
For the month of August, he said the local government suffered a shortfall of N9.2m which affected the payment of the salary for September.
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