{"id":106363,"date":"2019-04-12T09:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T08:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=106363"},"modified":"2019-04-12T09:51:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T08:51:55","slug":"kogi-how-gov-bello-spent-n840m-monthly-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=106363","title":{"rendered":"Kogi: How Gov. Bello spent N840m monthly – Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Speaker of Kogi House of Assembly, Mr Matthew Kolawole, said on Thursday that the state government was using N840 million monthly to service loans inherited from past administrations in the state.<\/p>\n

Kolawole revealed this in Lokoja at a media parley with members of the Correspondents\u2019 Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).<\/p>\n

He said that the amount was sourced from the state\u2019s allocation from the Federation Account.<\/p>\n

According to him, the Gov. Yahaya Bello\u2019s administration inherited huge debts from loans obtained by previous administrations in the state.<\/p>\n

Kolawole said the loans accrued during the tenure of Alhaji Idris Wada, when the amount for servicing was about N700.<\/p>\n

The speaker said that the amount increased to N840 million with the loans obtained by the regime before the present administration.<\/p>\n

He explained that the debt servicing had adversely affected the payment of workers\u2019 salaries and the overall development of the state.<\/p>\n

Kolawole said that Bello\u2019s administration inherited four months\u2019 salary arrears owed to state government workers, and 34 months arrears owed local government workers.<\/p>\n

He maintained that while the immediate past administration paid between 25 and 30 per cent of local government workers\u2019 salaries, the current regime had been paying 65 per cent of the salaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe governor is presently working out plans to clear all outstanding salaries owed to state government workers in the next two months.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not easy to run a state like Kogi with a huge debt profile, and so Gov. Bello is doing his best to uplift the living standard of its inhabitants,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

Kolawole said that the state government would soon create over 10, 000 job opportunities through the Omi Rice project which would be inaugurated in the next two months.<\/p>\n

On his recent reelection to represent the Kabba-Bunu State Constituency at the state Assembly, Kolawole said he owed his victory to God Almighty and his constituents.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Speaker of Kogi House of Assembly, Mr Matthew Kolawole, said on Thursday that the state government was using N840 million monthly to service loans inherited from past administrations in the state. Kolawole revealed this in Lokoja at a media parley with members of the Correspondents\u2019 Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[499,506],"class_list":["post-106363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-kogi","tag-yahaya-bello"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}