Kano State Governor Abdullahi says says it is impossible for the state to pay workers their full consolidated wages for the the month of March due to the drop in federal allocation.
The governor said this on Monday through the commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba.
Thes explanation came following a seven days ultimatum by the state chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) to stop “illegal deduction” from civil servants’ salaries.
The state Chairman of NLC, Kabiru Ado Minjibir, had issued the ultimatum after an emergency meeting of the State Executive Council on Friday.
He said failure to stop the “unexplained” deduction before the end of its ultimatum on April 6, 2021, workers would embark on a three-day warning strike from the midnight of April 7.
The commissioner said said for the month of March, the state government received a total allocation of N12, 400,000,000 from the federation account, out of which the state collected N6,100,000,000, while the 44 local governments collected the sum of N6,300,000,000.
The commissioner explained that for the state government to pay the consolidated wages to its workers, it needs additional billions of naira which is currently not available.
