{"id":731393,"date":"2019-10-25T16:27:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/25\/angry-workers-lock-up-council-boss-over-unpaid-salary\/"},"modified":"2019-10-25T16:27:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:27:30","slug":"angry-workers-lock-up-council-boss-over-unpaid-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/25\/angry-workers-lock-up-council-boss-over-unpaid-salary\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Workers Lock Up Council Boss Over Unpaid Salary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_643980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-643980\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-643980\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1572020850_607_serving-lawmaker-convicted-of-n31-million-fraud-sent-to-jail-in-zamfara-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a jail\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-643980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of a jail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Doma Local government secretariat in Nasarawa was thrown into a wild drama as workers locked up the council boss, Rabo Sani, over failure to pay their outstanding September salary.<\/p>\n<p>He was locked up for three years with the workers claiming that his action has subjected them to undue hardship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0<\/strong>After 6 Years Of Job Hunting, Man Dies A Day Before He Would Receive His First Salary<\/p>\n<p>According to Northern City News, the council boss upon regaining his freedom attributed his failure to pay up the outstanding to the\u00a0N100m liabilities left behind by his predecessor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>His words:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWith the commencement of local government autonomy, our problems surface because what we normally do before the autonomy was to augment salaries of few councils with those with less financial burden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom June, July and August, we have to augment our salary with N28m from Value Added Tax and the committee on Local Government forbid us to augment salary from VAT and insisted that VAT was meant for project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further revealed that the council paid money for the installation of street lights, over N30m for a 1km road leading to the Andoma\u2019s palace while another 300m road project was ongoing.\u00a0For the month of August, he said the local government suffered a shortfall of N9.2m which affected the payment of the salary for September.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo of a jail Doma Local government secretariat in Nasarawa was thrown into a wild drama as workers locked up the council boss, Rabo Sani, over failure to pay their outstanding September salary. 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