Govs: We Were Not Elected to Only Pay Salaries

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The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has declared that they were not elected to only pay salaries of civil servants but to also provide good roads, electricity, education and other necessary amenities for the people.

Addressing journalists last night after the meeting of the governors in Abuja, the Chairman of the NGF, who is also the Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, said there was no way the governors could perform magic if there were no funds.

The governors called for the examination of the national income in the last 14 years to enable them to agree on the contentious issue of minimum wage implementation.

Yari said it was a pity that state governors had been limited to the payment of salaries alone in their respective states, adding that the lack of funds had hindered them from carrying out their responsibilities in other sectors such as health, electricity, education, roads, among others.