No Law Bars Governor Bello From Building Personal House – Aide

The director general, Media and Publicity to the Kogi State
governor, Kingsley Fanwo has officially reacted to the social media
condemnation of the governor for owning a multi-million naira house
in his native Okene, referring to the agitators against the
governor , “a confused community of crumbling critics.”

Addressing newsmen in Kaduna, the governor’s spokesman said the
governor didn’t violate any known law for having a house in his
hometown.

His words, “I didn’t say anything because they are a confused
community of crumbling critics who have lost focus and
direction.They know the governor was a successful businessman
before his foray into politics. There is no correlation between the
salary payment situation in the state and the governor’s recently
completed house at Okene.

“We have spoken severally about the salary situation in the
state. We have paid genuine workers up to July 2017 and we are
working on the arrears. It is also true that those who were
recently pardoned and returned to the payrolls are being owed more
number of months.

“We will pay what our Paris Club Refund and allocations can pay
to make the Yuletide an enjoyable one for our civil servants. They
deserve their pay after all their contributions to the development
of the state”.

Fanwo said the Kogi State government will continue to strengthen
its relationship with labour, insisting that comparison of the
state with oil producing and highly viable states was unfair.

“Anambra State was governed by a forward-thinking governor who
left a fortune for the incumbent. The present administration in
Kogi inherited debts and unproductive loans. The governor is
working hard to build institutions that can sustain the gains of
his reforms in the civil service,” he said.

The director general, Media and Publicity to the Kogi State
governor, Kingsley Fanwo has officially reacted to the social media
condemnation of the governor for owning a multi-million naira house
in his native Okene, referring to the agitators against the
governor , “a confused community of crumbling critics.”

Addressing newsmen in Kaduna, the governor’s spokesman said the
governor didn’t violate any known law for having a house in his
hometown.

His words, “I didn’t say anything because they are a confused
community of crumbling critics who have lost focus and
direction.They know the governor was a successful businessman
before his foray into politics. There is no correlation between the
salary payment situation in the state and the governor’s recently
completed house at Okene.

“We have spoken severally about the salary situation in the
state. We have paid genuine workers up to July 2017 and we are
working on the arrears. It is also true that those who were
recently pardoned and returned to the payrolls are being owed more
number of months.

“We will pay what our Paris Club Refund and allocations can pay
to make the Yuletide an enjoyable one for our civil servants. They
deserve their pay after all their contributions to the development
of the state”.

Fanwo said the Kogi State government will continue to strengthen
its relationship with labour, insisting that comparison of the
state with oil producing and highly viable states was unfair.

“Anambra State was governed by a forward-thinking governor who
left a fortune for the incumbent. The present administration in
Kogi inherited debts and unproductive loans. The governor is
working hard to build institutions that can sustain the gains of
his reforms in the civil service,” he said.