Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State has accused senior civil servants in the state of sabotaging government activities.<\/p>\n
Masari made this known at a special Dinner organised for labour leaders in Katsina on Monday night to mark the May Day.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome senior civil servants have been indulging in acts that are against the progress of government programmes and policies.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are aware that some of the senior civil servants that we inherited from the previous administration have not been assisting the present government to implement certain programmes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don\u2019t assist the state government in implementing key issues of the government that will make rural folks to benefit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe present government believed that civil servants are the engine room of the government but some senior civil servants are sabotaging our efforts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis group of saboteurs are indulging in activities that will not assist the state government to make judicious use of scare resources.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of them are on daily basis disclosing top government secrets at various places,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n
Masari said that the state government had introduced mechanism to monitor such civil servants with the aim of dealing with them.<\/p>\n
On continuous delay in the payment of local government workers, the governor blamed it on the activities of `dubious\u2019 people.<\/p>\n
According to him, the N3.6 billion statutory allocation for the 34 local government areas received in April 2017 from the Federation Account was inadequate to pay salaries.<\/p>\n
He said that the state government had to add N100 million to the amount to be able to pay the April salary.<\/p>\n
Masari stressed that 27 out of the 34 local councils in the state could not pay their staff salaries based on their receipts from Federal allocations.<\/p>\n
The governor threatened to give all the 34 local governments their Federal allocation to pay salaries, if the wage bill kept rising.<\/p>\n
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