After securing the roundly criticized approval of the Cross River State House of Assembly for the release of N50million by each of the 18 LGAs to the fight against COVID 19, the State Commissioner for Local Government Affairs, Stella Odey, summoned the management team of all the LGAs to a meeting in her office on Thursday 16th April, 2020.
The final paper work was concluded and the councils are expected to move the money (900million), into the dedicated account from tomorrow Monday 20th April, 2020.
The account provided in the meeting for the payment is domiciled with the the United Bank for Africa UBA.
Account Name: Cross River COVID 19 Support.
Account Number: 1022751761.
Thank you and stay safe.
Yours sincerely.
Citizen Agba Jalingo.
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Citizen Agba Jalingo is the publisher of CrossRiverWatch and writes from Lagos State.
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2 commentsOn COVID-19 And Cross River LG Funds Continued BY AGBA JALINGO
It is appalling that for a memo coming from a very high level of the government will contain misspelling and unnecessary capitalisation in the middle of sentences. What is the government going to do with all the money it is collecting since it is being reported that CRS does not have COVID-19, the disease caused by Coronavirus.
It is very wrong that the LGAs are being asked to pay $50M each without one kobo spent by the state government in their LGAs. The government should have billed them after expenditure. What will the government do with unspent amount? This is a recipe for CORRUPTION as the money will be mismanaged!!! Not a good governance practice.