Nigeria: Amosun Laments Financial Decay of Ogun State

19 November 2012

Abeokuta — Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has lamented the financial decay inherited from the past administration, saying "our government inherited an empty treasury."

He disclosed that "we met a State where salaries, subventions were owed. We met a state where pensions were owed for 32 months. Before they left, minimum wage was not paid. We inherited an empty treasury. Even by their own admission, they said they left N50 billion but we later discovered that the State was indebted to the tune of about N97 billion."

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