Delta govt denies diverting bailout funds

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(Nigeria) The Delta State Government has denied media report that it diverted part of its bailout fund.
A statement by Mr Patrick Ukah, state Commissioner for Information in Asaba on Wednesday, said “The attention of the Delta State Government has been drawn to a news report published in the media, titled “How States spent Their Bail-out Funds.”  We thereby wish to state, as follows;
“That the state government received the sum of N10, 936,799.36 as bailout funds for salaries on 21/9/2015.  Following the monitoring of the utilization of funds by the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, the state received a letter dated 12/10/2015 with a questionnaire attached requesting for details of funds utilized.
“In the response to the ICPC dated 15/10/2015, the state declared that the sum of N8, 129,888,279.86 was expended with a balance of N2, 806,911,019.50.  The balance of N2, 806,911,019.50 as at 31/12/2015 has been applied as follows: (a) N2, 000, 000, 000 to the State Pension Bureau to reduce State liability to pensioners; (b) The sum of N806, 911,019.50 was used for the payment of primary school teachers’ salaries.
“It is pertinent to note that since January, 2016, the state has not received any request of update on the position of the utilization of funds from the ICPC. It is therefore, necessary to state that the aforementioned newspaper report was based on a stale update,” the statement added.


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