Babangida Aliyu Signs 2015 Appropriations Bill into Law
Niger State governor, Dr Babangida Aliyu, has signed the 2015 appropriation act passed by the State House of Assembly last week into law.
The House approved a total of N80,815 402,545 out of which N42,164,221 001 is for recurrent expenditure ,while N38,651,181,544, is for capital estimate.
Signing the document into law, Governor Aliyu, directed the Ministry of Finance and the state Planning Commission, to ensure strict adherence to the law in the disbursement of funds for the execution of projects.
Nobody should spend money in anticipation of money from the Federation Account, saying that payment of salaries should be a priority of the administration.
Governor Aliyu said he believed that the only way to fight corruption in the civil service is to ensure prompt payment of salary, adding that “we expect much from our civil servants but we must give them their right.”
The governor assured that the administration will continue to pay pensions and gratuities and directed the Pensions board to plug all the loopholes discovered in the payment of pensions to local government retirees.
Earlier, the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Alhaji Adamu Usman, had admonished ministries and government departments to ‘cut all areas of wastage and strive to improve on the generation of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).
Meanwhile the All Progressives Congress in Niger State expressed concern over the debt burden hanging on the state due to reckless loans collected over the years.
A statement by the APC spokesman, Jonathan Vatsa, stated that besides commercial term loans, the government had also gone to the capital market to collect bonds which outstanding debt stock by the end of 2014 stood at N16,347,232,682.81.
Vatsa said the burden was too heavy to carry silently without questions.
He said the sorry state of the state indebtedness continued with the commercial term loans which was N5,462,217.817.38, taken from two commercial banks all between 2013 and the end of 2014.
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| Speaker of Niger State House of Assembl; Alhaji Adamu Usman & Governor of Niger State; Aliyu Babangida |
Signing the document into law, Governor Aliyu, directed the Ministry of Finance and the state Planning Commission, to ensure strict adherence to the law in the disbursement of funds for the execution of projects.
Nobody should spend money in anticipation of money from the Federation Account, saying that payment of salaries should be a priority of the administration.
Governor Aliyu said he believed that the only way to fight corruption in the civil service is to ensure prompt payment of salary, adding that “we expect much from our civil servants but we must give them their right.”
The governor assured that the administration will continue to pay pensions and gratuities and directed the Pensions board to plug all the loopholes discovered in the payment of pensions to local government retirees.
Earlier, the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Alhaji Adamu Usman, had admonished ministries and government departments to ‘cut all areas of wastage and strive to improve on the generation of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).
Meanwhile the All Progressives Congress in Niger State expressed concern over the debt burden hanging on the state due to reckless loans collected over the years.
A statement by the APC spokesman, Jonathan Vatsa, stated that besides commercial term loans, the government had also gone to the capital market to collect bonds which outstanding debt stock by the end of 2014 stood at N16,347,232,682.81.
Vatsa said the burden was too heavy to carry silently without questions.
He said the sorry state of the state indebtedness continued with the commercial term loans which was N5,462,217.817.38, taken from two commercial banks all between 2013 and the end of 2014.
Babangida Aliyu Signs 2015 Appropriations Bill into Law
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