Senior civil servants in Benue, Kogi, and Plateau states are among the highest paid in the country despite their low revenue generation profile, Daily Trust investigations have shown.
The annual total wage bills of the three states are also high compared to the local revenues they generate.
The three states generated less than N10 billion each as IGR in 2016, according to official data published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
Nearly all the states in the country were weighed down by huge salaries and wages bills to the detriment of development projects.
The situation worsened with the dwindling oil revenues as more than two-thirds of the states could not pay workers’ salaries even with the federally-accrued revenue shared to them every month. Read more
