In faraway Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s Vice President, has suggested solutions to the ongoing problems of Nigeria’s governors’ inability to pay workers’ salaries and pension.
The Federal Government recently approved a bail out funds for the states to meet this responsibility, but Osinbajo, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, said such intervention cannot continue.
Speaking with Nigerians in Ethiopia, Osinbajo urged the state governments in Nigeria to shore up their internally generated revenue by idealising concepts that could help in this regard.
He further advised the state governors to establish and ensure that their Debt Management Offices are effective enough and that the governors should ensure transparency and accountability in public expenditures become their watchwords.
Apart from these, he said workers salaries must now be a top priority while the governors must review their states’ various workforce to filter ghost workers from the system.
The Vice President gave the Nigerians in the country hope and reasons to believe that the current administration would ensure a new Nigeria where everyone would become committed to the country.
He noted that a new Nigeria is happening already.
“The reason why I am so convinced is because everyone of us, one way or the other, believe that there should be a change,” he said.
“I am not saying those who voted for President Muhammadu Buhari and myself only, even if it was the other government, everyone of us expected some kind of change.”
