The Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP) today calls on the Houses of Assembly of Osun, Ondo, Oyo, Imo and Edo States to commence the impeachment of their State Governors who are unable to pay salaries of their civil servants for financial recklessness and profligacy.
According to a statement signed by the National Coordinator of LEDAP, Chief Edmund Obiagwu, President Mohamed Buhari’s regimes must immediately open transparent and independent investigations into the misuse of public funds, including huge sums of money borrowed from the capital market by the ex-Governors of Benue, Enugu, Rivers, Abia, Akwa Ibom, Plateau and Zamfara States.
The failure of these states Governors to pay salaries of their civil servants, who constitute less than 2 per cent of the population of the states, shows a total failure of governance and profligacy on the part of the Governors.
The monthly allocations from the Federation account is more than enough to meet the basic governance obligations of the states, because it is far above the monthly wage bill of the states. It is also more than enough to meet the cost of maintaining basic utility infrastructures of the states.
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