The House of Representatives has mandated its Ad Hoc Committee on Bail-out Funds to investigate non-payment of salaries of Kogi workers and report back within one week.

The House also mandated the Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN) to within one week report and explain the utilization of Salary Bail-out Fund given to states.

The directives followed a unanimous adoption of a Motion of Urgent National Importance moved by Rep. Sunday Karimi (Kogi-PDP) at the plenary presided by the Speaker, Mr Yakubu Dogara on Tuesday.

Moving the motion, Karim said in spite the federal statutory allocation, salary bail-out funds and Paris Club refund received by Kogi Government, non-payment of state and local government workers salaries lingered.

He said Mr Edward Soje, a Director in the Kogi Civil Service Commission committed suicide for not being able to meet his obligations as a father and a husband.

The legislator said the deceased took his life after his wife was delivered of a set of triplet at an Abuja hospital last week.

The lawmaker explained that the late senior civil servant was being owed 11 months salary which made it difficult for him to meet his responsibilities.

According to Karimi, the situation of Soje is the lot of the majority of the civil servants and pensioners in the state.

He expressed concern that the state government had opposed to and refused any authority to investigate the non-payment of staff salaries.

According to Karimi, if nothing is immediately done about the situation in Kogi, more civil servants who were frustrated will commit suicide

In her contribution, Rep. Nnkiruka Onyejeocha (Abia-PDP), she said it was sad for parents who worked for kogi government go several months without pay.

Onyejeocha called on legislators to support the motion and urged the committee to treat the matter with high speed.

Rep. Jimoh Olajide (Lagos-APC) commended the mover of the motion for the courage to speak for the people of Kogi.

He said the function of government was basically to ensure the welfare and security of the people.

According to Olajide, a situation where civil servants are committing suicide, nobody knows what is next.

The lawmaker, who advised the three tiers of government to be considerate and just, urged Nigerians not to commit suicide, no matter the difficulty.

The House urged the Federal and State as well as Local Governments to priorities payment of salaries.


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Good

my first post to hit front page. dedicated this to all the suffering civil servant in kogi state.
God will surely answer your prayers and ease your stress ameen

Good but pls can anyone here help me with 1k

I no de shame to ask

4611062623..Any amount can help

Have you seen why it isn't possible for the youths to rule the country, a forty something years old man can not manage a state, not to talk of a whole country.

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Lalasticlala kindly do the needful.
20 solid months now and we are still counting, that my mum have not received 1kobo for her pension. How can a sane person rule in such a pathetic way?
@Hon. Sunday Karimi, please watch your back oo. Sure Yeye bello will come for you just the way he has attacked/attacking Hon. Abiodun Faleke and Sen. Dino Melaye.

i hate that governor with short hands and legs like shit. Buhari knows his atrocities but will not call him to order because he is his boy

Investigate what...

na now Dem wake up, let them wait until the Deputy Governor collapse or commit suscide

type APC on Google and it will ask you,do you mean:lie, propaganda,deceit, abracadabra etc.

Buhari has failed Me-Aisha Buhari

*ÀbúròBuhari*

this country self

because say commissioner commit suicide all to do now investigate.

if mere poor man commit suicide they will not even hear it.

i think it is high time, the politicians start experiencing what they do to the mass

What's the investigation about? Order the governor to pay the damn monies or impeach that infidel before someone else commits suicide.

The Kogi governor, Yahaya Bello, is an extremely useless person. I hate him with all the passion I can possibly muster. Dumb fuckface!

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okay then...time will tell.

But the suffering is really much... To get government job na wahala, to get salary sef na wahala

dogara is really working

Legislathieves investigating Anoda Armed Robber( Guvnor)....
Na only thieves sabi anoda thief waka

As far as thou are close to the president,you can corrupt yourself to anything.
Show me a single individual,SINGLE INDIVIDUAL,linked to Buhari,or appointed by him that doesn't have a past or present corruption allegation hanging on his neck,and I would show you the birthplace of Jesus Christ in Nigeria.

Na them them.i know nothing good will come out of this investigation.
APC govt,been deceiving us since they assume power.#2019hopeforthecommonpeople#

The demerit of feeding bottle federalism

kelechi50:
Have you seen why it isn't possible for the youths to rule the country, a forty something years old man can not manage a state, not to talk of a whole country.

what has 73 abi 74 years old man improved in this country?

Dino couldn't raise motion for the welfare of his people only what he knows is to show them his exotic cars.

Eye service. Who are they deceiving

With all due disrespect, Kogi is a very useless state. Various parts of it should be restructured back into all six bordering states.

i tot Dino said that long time ago;

and the Kogi people called for his soul to b crucified that he is against the governor..

now e don red ...

like the normal Nigeria spirit; attack the messenger and discard the message

Abeg make una investigate that of Abia state too.

nawa oo