AUPCTRE to Buhari: Ensure govs account for bailout fund

The Amalgamated union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical And Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE), has called on the federal government to make governors account for bailout funds given to their state.
In a communique issued after the 20th plenary session of its National Governing Council (NGC), in Abuja recently, AUPCTRE alleged that most of the state governors have misappropriated the fund, resulting in their inability to pay their workers for many months.
In the communique, signed by the National President of AUPCTRE, Comrade Solomon Adelegan and the General Secretary, Comrade Yusuf Zambuk, the union decried irregular payment of salary, pension, gratuity and remittance of union dues by the state governments, despite the federal government’s assistance to them, through the bailout fund.
The communique said: “The NGC-in-session appreciates the Federal Government for provision of bailout funds for payment of arrears of salaries, pension and gratuity to state government. But unfortunately, most of the state governments have misappropriated  the funds such that workers are owed two months to 11 months arrears of salaries, pensions and gratuities.
“Deriving from above, the NGC-in-session wish to put the affected states on notice to either immediately resolve the issue of paying outstanding salary, pension and gratuity arrears in their respective states or be prepared to face the anger of the organized labour.”