A WikkiTimes review of budget performance documents of Northern Nigeria States has shown that states would have been unable to pay salaries to the extent to which they did, assuming that their own internally generated revenue were to be their only source of revenue.
WikkiTimes studied twelve states for this report.
Only Kwara state would have been able to pay salaries with their internally generated revenue and still have extra N7 billion left. Other states such as Kano, Kaduna,Jigawa, Katsina, Zamfara, Kogi, Bauchi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Taraba,Yobe, Kebbi would not have paid salaries without federal government allocations.
Simply if, if the state governments relied on the money they generated themselves, they wont be able to pay for workers salary in the state.
WikkiTimes earlier reported how Northwestern states did not make up to 40% of their FAAC allocations as IGR. Meaning that they did not make 40% of the money they got from the federal government internally.
Northern states have continued to face revenue generation challenges, a development that puts them at the mercy of the monies that comes from the federal government.
Data review shows that if the federal government stops paying the reviewed northern states allocation, they won’t be able to meet up their own salary bill. Meaning that Abdul who works in Kano, may be unable to receive salaries if the state relied on its own money alone, putting the state in a huge fiscal issue.
WikkiTimes has severally reported issues around revenue generation in northern nigeria, with experts calling for new ways of revenue generation including deploying technology to aid the efforts by these states to make more money.
Friday Odeh of the accountability lab noted that it poses danger for states to rely heavily on the federal government as a source of revenue.
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