Nasarawa Assembly uncovers infractions in LG finances

The Nasarawa state Assembly committee investigating the non-payment of June salary to local government staff and other deductions, Monday discovered financial infractions in the local government system.

Speaker Ibrahim Balarabe stated this during the House proceedings in Lafia. He said names of retired and deceased staff continued to exist in the payment voucher of local governments and same in development areas.

“This report revealed 13 areas of concern and anomalies such as indiscriminate promotions and implementation of promotions, duplication of names in the pay vouchers,” he said.

He also said that the committee discovered that by the allocation of June 2019, only four local governments in the state can comfortably pay their salary 100 per cent. The other nine local governments cannot pay due to paucity of funds compared to their wage bills.

He approved additional three weeks for the committee to do a thorough job on the issue in order to bring sanity to local government system.  He also urged them to find a lasting solution to the problems of local government system in the state in the interest of peace and development.

Earlier, chairman of the committee, Mohammed Alkal, said there were a lot of discoveries made by the committee while discharging its assignment, and ought for additional time to enable the committee complete its assignment.

On July 16, Nasarawa state Assembly set up six-man committee to investigate the finances of the state ministry of local government and chieftaincy affairs over non-payment of June salary.

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