At
the climax of the meeting on Tuesday, the Governors were solely able to reach
associate degree agreement that the Federal government is to pay debts it owed
the states over jobs they did.
Zamfara
State Governor and chairman of the Governors Forum, Abdullaziz Yari, briefed
reporters at the end of the meeting, aforesaid that rather than a bailout, the
state governments were told to seek inward and generate required funds to clear
their debts.
The
State Governors conjointly requested that the Nigerian Liquefied Gas Company’s
tax ought to be paid into the Federation Account and be shared.
They
conjointly asked the central to make sure that monies accruing from the
Federation Account ought to be shared, as stipulated by the constitution.
It
is the meeting the president has had with the Governors to seek out an answer
to the monetary crisis that has created no fewer than twenty two of the states
owes salaries to their employees to the tune of one hundred billion naira
(about $5,000,000).
The
Nigerian Governors, whose heap has continually been to come back to Abuja to
share within the Federation Account, through their chairman aforesaid they were
happy to fulfill with the President however that it had been on the far side a
bailout as reportable.
After
a gathering of the All Progressives Congress Governors Forum last week, the
chairman of the forum, Governor Rochas Okorocha, immersed a bailout for states
that are unable to pay workers’ salaries.
He
aforesaid that this state of affairs was a product of poor management of the
economy.
‘’On
the economy of the state, we have a tendency to be involved and troubled by the
dwindling revenue of the states that nowadays has affected negatively, the
lives of our folks.
“The
matter has become thus serious that imperative action should be taken for a
bailout for the states, as things don't seem to be convalescing either.
“We
have Sat all the way down to review steps that ought to be taken and that we
align for total overhaul of the system to dam all the leakages in our nation’s economy,”
Governor Okorcha aforesaid.
Other
problems within the precedence embody a way to curb insurgence in Bornu, Yobe
and Adamawa states and what the president is doing unitedly with the
international community.
The
Governors conjointly expressed considerations over the choice to dismantle
military check points, stressing that it had been not the proper time for such
call.