See what the bail out funds was used for in Adamawa state

Adamawa State Commissioner of Finance, Mahood Yunusa

culled from National Mirror
Adamawa State government has said the bailout fund it received was only used for settling salary liabilities and allowances owed its workforce.

The state government, through Finance Commissioner, Mahmood Yunusa, disclosed this yesterday in Yola, while announcing that payment of N362.5m to settle outstanding salaries and allowances of 952 health officials, whose September and October 2014 salaries had lingered.

Yunusa, while addressing newsmen accompanied by his Health and Information counterparts, Dr. Fatima Abubakar and Ahmed Sajoh, respectively, maintained that there was no cause for alarm over the N9.5bn bailout fund it received.
The commissioner said the government only utilised the funds to settle salaries and allowances owed its workers, as well as offset the two months salaries owed the 952 health officials working with the state’s Primary Health Care Development Agency.
He stressed that the bailout, part of which had already been dispensed for settlement of workers’ leave grant and allowances earlier, “remains very safe and locked away in a bank.
“Every kobo that was received to settle liabilities of our workers is still safe and will be utilised solely for that purpose.” Yunusa further stated that the Government was able to make a savings of N42.5m after verification of the number of nurses and health workers owed outstanding salaries turned out to be 952 against the 987 initially listed.

According to the finance commissioner, a total of N362.5m has already been earmarked for payment of the affected health workers beginning from November 30, adding that the money would be disbursed through table payment after they must have been screened.