Ortom has broken record as governor with longest unpaid salaries – Presidency

The Presidency has described Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state as a ‘failed politician’ who provides excuses for his state’s challenges, claiming he at present holds the nation’s longest document of unpaid salaries and pensions.

The President’s Senior Particular Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu said this in a press release titled “The Incongruence of Governor Samuel Ortom on Come up TV” in response to Ortom’s interview on Come up Information on January 21, 2022.

The governor, who lately signed the amended Benue State Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Institution Legislation of 2017 in Makurdi final Thursday lambasted the Buhari regime for the farmer-herder clashes within the state in addition to the unpaid salaries of state authorities employees.

In response, Shehu stated Ortom had continued in charge the President who didn’t owe federal employees for his woes, as an alternative of elevating cash to settle unpaid salaries.

The assertion learn; “There are two kinds of politicians in Nigeria in the present day. The primary are politicians who’re leaders that provide options to the challenges dealing with the voters and the nation. They create ahead insurance policies and implement them, to enhance the lives of others.

“The second, politicians who supply excuses for the challenges voters face. They keep away from concepts and as an alternative blame others for issues they’ve both not solved or have themselves created.

“President Muhammadu Buhari is a pacesetter. He inherited a treasury that successive earlier administrations had emptied – and he sought and succeeded in repatriating billions of {dollars} of stolen funds from abroad. His administration found greater than 500,000 financial institution accounts operated by Ministries, Businesses and Departments. In these accounts, the cash belonging to the federal government was stored.

“MDAs at the moment are compelled to make use of the Treasury Single Account, TSA, domiciled within the Central Financial institution of Nigeria. And the President introduced ahead the primary and solely plan to deal with farmer-herder clashes in 100 years, supporting states to rediscover grazing reserves and create ranching lands which have efficiently decreased tensions whereas growing concord and saving lives.

“Governor Samuel Ortom, workplace holder, is that different politician. He inherited unpaid salaries and pension arrears – and slightly than discover a solution to increase funds to pay them, he has blamed the President.”