Chairman of Local Government Pensioners Association of Nigeria (LOGPAN) Ogun State chapter, Pastor Benedict Ademoye has declared that the Allegations against the state governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun by the impeached Ijebu-East local government chairman, Hon. Wale Adedayo regarding the local government Allocation are false and misleading.
Pastor Ademoye, who is also a member of Joint Account Allocation Committee (JAAC) in the state, stated this on Monday while addressing the Newsmen in Abeokuta, the state capital.
According to him “Statutorily, according to Constitutional provision, there is a Joint Local government Allocation Committee that sit every month when Allocation comes from Abuja. Some days ago, we were summoned to Abeokuta for a meeting. All local government chairmen and members, Presidents of NULGE are members, representative of Primary School Teachers and my self who is a representative of LOGPAN, Four Representatives of Traditional council in Ogun State, which includes Egba, Remo, Ijebu and Awori. We hold the meeting every month.”
He noted that the allegation was not strange in the state, since the the days of civilian government, adding that then both workers and Pensioners were owned which led to the idea of creation of the committee.
We can recalled that such allegations have come from the same LG for several times in the past.
He disclosed that the system which the state presently is using was adopted by other states across the Nation.
Pastor Ademoye emphasized that the state government is not the one who spend the Local government Allocations, but only play a monitoring role through the committee, while statutory officers were in charge of who gets what.
On the issue regarding gratuity of the pensioners, he said the state government truly disbursed 1Billion Naira for Pensioners in March, 2023 and August but still owning June and September.