Amidst the uproar generated by the cut in the salaries of workers by over fifty percenetage, the Niger state governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, has announced a drastic slash in the weekly budget of the Government House.He said the Government House will now spend twenty million monthly as against the previous weekly budget of one hundred and fifty million naira.
The governor, however, did not give details of the slash but said it is in line with the prevailing economic situation of the state which has made execution of capital projects and settlement of other recurrent expenditure very difficult. Last week when the salaries for the month of June were paid to all categories of workers, it was with a fifty percentage reduction, a development which generated an outcry from mostly civil servants. Governor Sani Bello therefore asked for sacrifice from everyone in the state because the economic downturn that has hit the country is now biting hard in the state.
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