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Kwara State Government refute insinuations of diverted funds

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The Kwara State Government has dismissed insinuations that it had diverted the N2.1b received recently from the Federal Government.

It also denied receiving N3b from the central government, stressing that it had only received its share of NLNG dividend recently distributed to all tiers of government.


Making the clarification in statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communications, Dr Muyideen Akorede, the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed dismissed as untruthful claims made by the state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) that the state government had diverted the funds.

 

According to him, the state government had neither received a bail out from the Federal Government nor the N3b claimed by the opposition party.

On the issue of alerting the public about how much was received, Governor Ahmed said government officials informed officials of the state chapters of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) during meetings held last week to update them on the funds received and how they will be utilised, adding that the information was also in the public domain.
Governor Ahmed further clarified the N2.1b NLNG dividend was inadequate to cover monthly obligations which he put at N2.6b. 

These obligations, he said, include the salaries of civil servants, teachers, pensions, gratuities and subventions to its various Ministries, Departments, and Agencies as well as tertiary institutions. Continuing, he said the monthly obligations also include statutory first-line deductions for the Judiciary and the Legislative arms of government. Despite this, he continued, the state government had recently paid due salaries to the core civil service as well as pensions.

Governor Ahmed also dismissed as mischievous and false, the PDP’s claim that Senate President Bukola Saraki’s recent private visit to the state was linked to the NLNG payment, stressing that the Saraki neither receives nor interferes with state funds.

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