Non Payment of Allowances to Kogi Deputy Gov: National Industrial Court Gives 14-Day Ultimatum to Gov Bello

The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has been given a fourteen- day notice by the National Industrial Court, Abuja division on the non payment of statutory allocations to his Deputy, Elder Simon Achuba.

The notice which was served on the governor, has the state attorney general and commissioner for justice as the first and second defendant respectively.

The Governor has been asked to enter into appearance, failure in default, the claimant may proceed and judgment delivered in his absence.

Recall that a human rights activist, Femi Falana earlier issued a seven-day ultimatum to Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello to pay the outstanding allocations due to the Deputy Governor of the state amounting to the total sum of Eight Hundred And Nineteen Million Seven Hundred And Nine Thousand, Nine Hundred And Eighty Thousand Naira for the 2017, 2018 and 2019 memo approval.

Falana in a letter dated July 17, 2019, said the accumulated statutory allocations the state government has withheld which includes travel allowances, hotel bills, pledges and outstanding monthly imprest and salaries due to his client as the Deputy Governor of Kogi State was over Eight Hundred Million Naira.