Why we cannot pay salaries, Bayelsa LG Commissioner

The Commissioner for Local Government Administration,Bayelsa State, Mrs. Agatha Goma says that the steady drop in allocation from the Federation Accounts and huge wage bills are responsible for the councils’ inability to meet their financial obligations to their workers in the state.

That due to the development, the leadership of local government areas in the state were still battling with months of unpaid salaries in spite of receiving bailout and Paris Club funds from the Federal Government.

She however, said that the bailout and the Paris Club funds received by the councils were used to offset some backlog of workers and teachers salaries at the council level.

She explained that state government had embarked on several reforms at the third tier of government to weed out ghost workers and increased productivity among council workers.