Hamza Idris
16 November 2008
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"The governor is complaining, saying a lot of things and under normal circumstances, you cannot fight them and we have been trying to explain things to him, that what we did has no political inclination", he added.
He said more than sixty percent of the beneficiaries collected N100, 000 and therefore wondered why they would default in repayment.
An official of the bank also confirmed to our correspondent in Damaturu that the bank has the entire necessary documents to justify the loan between the civil servants in the state.
"As far as we are concerned, we have the entire documents to justify this loan.
If the state governor is saying he is not aware of the loan, I am surprised because all the documents here are signed by the secretary to the state government", the source, who pleaded anonymity said.
Efforts to get more insight from the bank was frustrated as a top officer in the Damaturu branch only gave our reporter a flier containing the website address and the land line telephone numbers of the GTB headquarters.
Further investigations revealed that the salary account of the beneficiaries have already been moved to GTB and deductions have commenced even though some of the workers have started complaining that they have started feeling the negative impact of the loan because what is left for them in their accounts would hardly take them into half of the new month.
This agitation came in the wake of speculations that many of the workers did not go into constructive endeavour with the money. "I can tell you confidently that many of them only got married or bought old cars...I wonder how they are going to pay", Ali Mairiga, a civil servant, said.
But Sani Musa who is a beneficiary of the loan said he invested what he collected in his rice farm in Gashua adding that the farm has blossomed and will soon be harvested.
It is now left to be seen how the imbroglio would be resolved between the NLC, Yobe State government and the GTB in the event leave some of the civil servants either leave the state service or retired before the redemption of the loans.
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