I was discussing with an executive senior non-political staff of a local government in Nigeria this past weekend, October 11, 2014, and was shocked again to hear of the persistent non-payment of salaries to staff. Half of August, 2014 monthly salary was just being paid in October, 2014. May be the second part will be paid in November? He said he hopes so..., Ummm.
Here is the flash light on the main reason, and I quote from a Nigerian newspaper report (Premium Times Nigeria, October 14, 2014):
"A former Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Nduese Essien, has blamed the low level of development at the grassroots to the sharing of local government funds among some top politicians and their gladiators."
Sharing of local government funds among politicians for their personal use is not only hindering development now but sending the staff as well as their family home on empty stomach, and equally painfully destroying their socioeconomic lives. Or what else do you expect when staff is not paid? Unfortunately the dubious and corrupted ones sort out other corrupt means to survive. Thus corruption begets corruption, which is the vicious circle of corruption that has continued to grind our nation.
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