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Buhari did not ask us to pay workers’ arrears, only for Christmas, say Governors

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President Muhammadu Buhari advised Governors to pay workers in their states this Christmas, but made no mention of clearing arrears of salaries owed the workers, the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has clarified.

In a statement that sent chills across the board from analysts, observers, and labour leaders, the forum, according to its Secretariat spokesman, Abdulrazque Barkindo, the governors forum insisted, “No mention of all workers arrears, was ever made, by President Muhammadu Buhari. ”

Many feared the statement suggests the governors planned to continue to owe workers their salaries.

The Forum’s statement reads fully: Governors of the 36 states of the federation have pledged to work assiduously towards ensuring that they make workers happy by paying their emoluments before the commencement of the Yuletide season.  

This is following the instruction by  President Muhammadu Buhari that governors should be paid what is due to their states to ensure that workers spend Christmas with money in their pockets and a smile on their faces.  

This presidential directive was issued at a meeting between the governors and the president which held at the Aso Rock Villa, on Monday.   

The governors had expressed profound  gratitude to the President for his magnanimity in hearkening to the needs of the states and understanding with them towards helping to solve some of the intractable financial problems of governance, top among which is the lingering problem of  workers’  salaries.  

They pledged, therefore, to rise up  to the  occasion collectively, as a mark of their respect for President Muhammadu Buhari and empathy for the workers by paying before Christmas, once the Finance, the Budget and Planning Ministries and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) disburse the monies owed them, as instructed.  

The President had remarked that, “I will not be saying much because the responsible ministers are here: Finance, Budget and Planning and the Central Bank of Nigeria.  I request you to appoint your own team to come and sit down with them (referring to the governors).   

“This should be done, not only for next year’s budget but for this Christmas.  The Minister of Finance, Budget and Planning and the Central Bank should sit down with you in a sub-committee to see how much can be released before Christmas,” the President instructed.   

No mention of all workers arrears, was ever made, by President Muhammadu Buhari.   

“For Nigerians without sources other than their salary, I am concerned that workers should be able to pay rent, school fees, buy drugs and take care of their families. I am so much concerned that people should have something to eat for Christmas, President Muhammadu Buhari declared.”   

The governors had appealed to the president to once again authorize the Finance ministry and the other officials to hasten the payment of the remainder of the Paris and London Club loan refunds as they had factored the monies into their 2018 budgets.  

President Muhammadu Buhari’s instruction that the money be paid before Christmas however draws its background from the series of delays in the previous disbursements to the states by the Finance Ministry, which by commission or omission had exacerbated and indeed increased the number of months that workers are owed salaries.  

For example, the first bailout that President Buhari approved was not paid until October, four months after the president had given approval for the money to be paid. It was the same practice with the first tranche of the Paris-London Club repayment, which was approved in mid 2016 but took until December 2016 to hit the states’ accounts. It is imperative to add that the Paris–London funds were legitimate funds of the states and not loans as several sources had thought. 

Barring any such happenstances, however, governors, who are equally very worried about their workers’ plights, are ready to wipe away workers tears by paying their emoluments before Christmas. 

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