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Unpaid salaries: Angry workers lock up local government boss
The committee chairman of Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Rabo Sani, has been locked up to press for over three hours for the payment of their outstanding September salary.
The council boss was accused by workers for exposing them to unnecessary hardship with his consistent absence from office.
According to Northern City News reports on Thursday, October 24th, an earlier attempt by the soldiers from the 123 Special Forces Army Barracks, Doma, to mediate was rebuffed as the workers refused to listen to entreaties while the three-hour standoff lasted.
While addresing the aggrieved workers, the council boss 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.”
He 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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