Posted by Odinaka on Fri 03rd Jul, 2015 - tori.ng
Governor Adams Oshiomhole has said the Federal Government would have been struggling to pay salaries of civil servants if it were not consistently assisted by the Central Bank
"With all due respect to the former Minister Okonjo-Iweala, she knows how to play around with statistics. I have made the point (that) she keeps opening part of the pages and not the entire book. The logic of transparency is that every minister must publish in full what is accruing to the Federation Account month to month and what is distributed to them. What she has been publishing is that this is what went to the Federal Government, this is what went to the state government and this is what goes to the local council. What she never published simultaneously is what accrued during the period out of which this was distributed."
"Every employer of labour has an obligation, a contractual obligation to pay those who work. The Bible says a labourer is entitled to his wages. Once you have laboured, it has to be paid for and you don’t pay wages because you are rich and you are able to afford it, you pay wages because the people have worked for it. It is not a gift from a kind-hearted employer; it is an obligation; it is a consequence for work."