By Sunday Donatus,  Lafia 
Nasarawa state governor, Engr Abdullahi Sule,  has assured workers in the state that his administration has made all necessary arrangements to pay workers hundred percent salaries throughout 2020.
Governor Sule who disclosed this while reactiing to questions from jpurnalists over the 2020 budget proposals presented to the state Assembly last week, stressed that the state government would not depend entirely on allocation from federation account to service salary requirements in the state. 
The governor also revealed that his immediate past predecessor, Senator Umaru Tanko Al-makura did not leave behind any debt while leaving office.

Engineer Sule, addressing a joint press conference when he paid a courtesy call on the former governor stressed that there was never a time that he said Senator Al-makura has left behind over 18bn as debt and that the burden of such debt was stopping his administration from running.

The Governor who was accompanied on the visit by his deputy, Dr. Emmanuel Akabe, recounted what he told stakeholders at a recent retreat urging them to tighten their belts because of the expenses ahead of the state based on the revenue coming to the state.

“I have mentioned to them, that we should wake up and improve our revenue generation. And indeed, the budget that we presented yesterday is showing a revenue of 26bn, which will show that we are working towards improving the revenue base in order to continue to prosper as a state.

“I mentioned that today we are having some deductions which every state in the federation is experiencing, not only Nasarawa State. We are having budget support refund, bailout refund and Excess Crude Account refund. And all these refunds are actually eating into the amount of money we receive monthly,” he explained.

While distancing himself from the said report, Engineer Sule  called on Senator Al-makura to remain the gentleman that he was and to ignore the speculations trending in some section of the media.

“The ECA we received, we can actually see it on ground, because there is no governor in the history of Nasarawa, with due respect, who has done more than this gentleman,” Engineer Sule said.

He maintained that there is no state in the federation that is debt free and that there is no serious business that is debt free.

“But there is no single debt left behind by Al-makura. Debt comes in all kinds of classes. As I mentioned, you can’t call bailout debt, you can’t call ECA debt, you can’t call budget support debt but these are deductions that are coming, that have to be refunded,” the Governor said.

He added that nothing has stopped his administration from running.