The chairman of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON), Kogi State chapter, Alhaji Taufiq Isa has debunked the statement credited to him and reported in one of the national dailies that Governor Yahaya Bello ordered the payment of full (100%) salaries to local government workers.
He clarified that he only said the governor has directed the administrators to comply with the local government autonomy.
The chairman further noted that the content of the press statement he issued was denying the purported invitation or arrest of the administrators, DLGs, and Treasurers by the EFCC as earlier rumoured.
According to him, “I did not say the governor ordered for payment of full salaries, the story was taken in an unfair and cruel manner with the intention to smear my reputation and also targeted to cause crisis within the new direction appointees.
“The statement credited to me is baseless, cruel, deceptive, unfair and impregnated with fallacies, and mere story telling intended to please the writer’s political sponsors. Those behind the fake story did not reason well, how can I issued statement announcing full salaries on behalf of a sitting governor when other state principal officers around the governor are there?
“I have always assured workers on prompt payment of their salaries and did not pronounce on what to pay local govt. workers yet, as we all know.”
