Matawalle left N4m behind, I’ve been running Zamfara on debt – Gov Lawal
Zamfara Recount Governor, Dauda Lawal has published that his predecessor, Bello Matawalle, left handiest N4m in the pronounce story.
Lawal, who talked about this in his interview with BBC Hausa, eminent that the four months salary of workers is yet to be paid.
He additionally claimed that senior secondary school college students in Zamfara haven’t written the West African Examination Council, WAEC, and the Nationwide Examination Council, NECO.
He said; “I if truth be told maintain been working the affairs of the pronounce on debt since I idea region of job as governor of Zamfara Recount. I met the treasury story of the pronounce with out a money. I handiest seen a single story with about N3 to N4 million in it.
“It’s about three months now and we’re yet to pay the salary of the workers. Whilst you happen to study on the total government agencies, the vitality provide to the structures has been disconnected because of the the a total bunch of hundreds and hundreds of debts incurred.
“The safety agencies, for 3 months now, the allowance given to them for his or her each day operations has no longer been paid. For the time being, college students of senior secondary colleges haven’t written their WAEC and NECO exams since the government is owing over one billion naira.”
On dispute of N20bn being left in the pronounce’s treasury, Lawal said; “When I heard that, I requested that they ought to level-headed come and uncover me the story, and maintain it public with proof of the story where such an amount of money became once kept.
“If I if truth be told maintain that amount of money the earlier administration is claiming they left for the pronounce, I could pay all workers their salaries, and provide ample funds to the safety agencies for the safety of the pronounce.
“The difficulty of water, there has been no water in Gusau for roughly four months now. I needed to borrow to aquire the chemicals for the water. And pleaded with some Indians who gave the pronounce some machines for water provide. If the pronounce is to aquire those machines, this can also fee over N200 million.”
Whereas promising to pay the civil servants their salaries sooner than the scream of the Eid-l-Kabir competition, Lawal said “It relies on the amount of loan I’m in a position to true. If what the pronounce can maintain ample money to pay is the salary of 1 month, I could construct my supreme to pay it as it is our responsibility to be certain that that we’re in a position to defend out our duties of paying the workers what they labored for.”
