Constitutional lawyer, Professor Sagay (SAN) has flayed the inability of state governors to pay salaries of civil servants in their states.
Constitutional lawyer, Professor Sagay (SAN), on Tuesday, June 23 said state governors who cannot pay salaries of civil servants in their states do not deserve any bail- out from the federal government .
Sagay, who condemned the continued dependence of states on the federal government for monthly allocations, said only state governors who executed jobs such as roads infrastructure and other task that is the responsibility of the federal government should be given any financial assistance.
He said, “In principle, they don’t deserve any bailout from the federal government except those who carry out infrastructural projects on behalf of the federal government.
“Most of these states are so dependent on the monthly allocations they receive from the federal government that they cannot think of ways they can internally generate their own resources.”
“It never happened in the First Republic because when you say federation, what you have is federating units which are independent and autonomous, having full powers controlling their resources, who then, out of those resources, send a proportion, a fraction, to the federal government who doesn’t have its own resources.”