The Bauchi State Government will no longer supplement the salaries of Local Government workers in the state. This is according to Governor Mohammed Abubakar.
The Governor made the announcement on Tuesday when members of the State Committee on Land Administration, led by its Chairman, Prof. Adamu Ahmed, submitted their report to him.
Abubakar said: “I have augmented the payment of Local Government staff salaries in the last three months and I will not do it any longer.
“The state depends almost 100 per cent on federation account to pay staff salaries and other activities, while oil price in the international market has continued to dwindle.
“Both the state and Local Governments must explore avenues on how to improve their Internally Generated Revenues to enable the two tiers of government survive.”
Abubakar noted that the time had come for the government and people of the state to look inwards and explore other areas to augment their incomes.
The governor promised that his administration had put machineries in place to diversify the state’s IGR, saying that his administration was tackling the infrastructural deficit in the state.
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