PP Elisha to Fintiri: Focus on paying the 32000 minimum wage immediately; as your blame will lead you nowhere
. “Fintiri took power from Nyako, the debt profile of the state was N6 billion but he handed over to Barrister Bala James Ngillari about N13 billion debt while Ngallari handed over to Governor Bindow N 14.5 billion debt”.
A Chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Adamawa state, Mr. P. P Elisha, has advised the incoming governor of Adamawa state, Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, to focused his attention on how to accomplish his campaign promises to the people of the state and avoid trending blames. Mr. Elisha gave the advised while reacting on an alleged N115 billion debt claimed in a report submitted to Fintiri by the members of his transition committee.
According to the report, the committee members claimed that His Excellency, Senator Mohammed Umar Jibrilla, has plunged the state into a huge debt of about N115 billion in his four years of administration. But reacting on the issue, Mr. Elisha said before Fintiri took power from Nyako, the debt profile of the state was N6 billion but he handed over to Barrister Bala James Ngillari about N13 billion debt while Ngallari handed over to Governor Bindow N 14.5 billion debt.
He noted that as of today, the debt profile of the state stood at N44 billion which accrued as the result of bailout funds, loans for clearing of local governments staff, primary health care staff and primary school teachers’ salaries arrears inherited by Bindow’s administration. But he wondered where the committee members got their figures from. Therefore, Mr. Elisha advised the incoming governor to trade his administration with caution as those who lives in glass house don’t throw stones.
While on the alleged failure to pay the April salary by Governor Bindow despite his administration accrued with about N332 billion, he said His Excellency, Mohamed Jibrilla Bindow is not owing any civil servants salaries except in the month of April and this was as the result of a threat issued to the bank not to give state government overdraft to augment the salaries. Moreover, he added that “right now the state government have money in the banks to pay the salaries but the banks have flagrantly refused to honoured the governor’s ordered to released civil servant their salaries.
Thus, he lamented that what will it benefits somebody to denied peoples their right most especially at this critical month of Ramadan when some peoples are fasting just to claim glory for payment of salaries with the money someone else has accumulated? According to Mr. Elisha, “any money Fintiri will use to pay salaries now, are either the money accumulated by Bindow’s government or take loans, so why subjecting the workers into untold hardship?