{"id":66592,"date":"2019-05-10T20:38:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=66592"},"modified":"2019-05-10T20:38:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:38:01","slug":"exposed-how-ayade-paid-april-and-may-salary-without-allocation-for-april-and-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/exposed-how-ayade-paid-april-and-may-salary-without-allocation-for-april-and-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposed: How Ayade paid April and may salary without allocation for April and may"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m-4437804048798499641\" class=\"mail-message \">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">It has emerged that Cross River State Government under the leadership of Governor Ben Ayade spent over N4 billion in payment of April and May salaries to local government workers without federal allocation for the corresponding period<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"m2126874117162545940\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">The action was in keeping with the policy of the governor for the state to always stand in the gap to enable local councils meet their obligations, including the payment of salaries.<\/p>\n<p>Official government records show that bailouts given to local governments from the state government between 2013 and no stands at N11.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>So far, local governments have been able to refund only N1.6billion, leaving a balance of N9.6billion which it owes the state.<br \/>\nThe break down is as follow:<br \/>\nDetails of State Bail out to LGAs:<br \/>\nDec 2013 &#8211; 500m<br \/>\nFeb 2014 &#8211; 250m<br \/>\nApril 2014 &#8211; 200m<br \/>\nOct 2014 &#8211; 58.8m<br \/>\nOct 2014 &#8211; 198m<br \/>\nJuly 2015 &#8211; 2.1bn<br \/>\nSept 2015 &#8211; 474.5m<br \/>\nOct 2015 &#8211; 45m<br \/>\nOct 2015 &#8211; 2.1bn<br \/>\nNov 2015 &#8211; 2.1bn<br \/>\nMay 2016 &#8211; 300m<br \/>\nMay 2016 &#8211; 592.4m<br \/>\nJune 2016 &#8211; 649.7m<br \/>\nSept 2016 &#8211; 700m<br \/>\nApril 2017 &#8211; 1.03bn<br \/>\nTOTAL = 11.4bn<\/p>\n<p>Repayments<br \/>\nJan 2014 &#8211; 500m<br \/>\nNov 2017 &#8211; 600m<br \/>\nApril 2018 &#8211; 500m<br \/>\nTOTAL = 1.6bn<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that without the intervention of Governor Ayade, the 18 councils in the state would have long gone bankrupt and insolvent.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, the ludicrous claim in the social media about a purported withdrawal of N4 billion from local governments account exist only in the imagination of the writer.<\/p>\n<p>If local governments, which are highly indebted to the state cannot meet their basic obligations including payment of salaries without the intervention of the state government, one wonders how they could have had N4 billion in their accounts fo it to be withdrawn for unknown purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The imaginary withdrawal of N4b from local governments account is wickedness taken too far for a state that just paid salary and pensions for both state and LG less than 2 weeks to election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conversation-footer\" class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has emerged that Cross River State Government under the leadership of Governor Ben Ayade spent over N4 billion in payment of April and May salaries to local government workers&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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