Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, says the Federal Government’s financial standing is worse than the states’.
Oshiomhole said this during a programme on Channels Television titled, “View from the top”.
About 18 states owe workers salaries while many others have stopped all capital projects, following the drop in federal allocations caused by the drop in global oil price.
The governor said the immediate past Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was largely to blame for the current financial crisis besetting the country because she failed to save for the rainy day.
He said, “When analysts and commentators allude to the facts which everybody can see that many states, maybe as much as two-thirds of the states, are not up to date in payment of salaries, allowances and other obligations to their work force, what is not often stated is the fact that the Federal Government is just in the same bad shape.He said since the naira had been devalued by about 25 per cent, it would be unfair for Nigerian workers to continue to earn the same wages despite the rise in the rate of inflation.
The governor urged the President to stop the importation of rice and other foods grown in Nigeria.
culled;Punch
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