Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Otti has revealed that his administration has paid about N90 billion out of the N191billion debt it inherited on assumption of workplace in 2023.
Governor Otti said this at his month-to-month media chat tagged: “Governor Alex Otti Speaks to Abians,” in Umuahia, the place he added that his administration had not borrowed any cash.
“But, we now have continued to repair roads, present high quality healthcare, renovate and improve colleges, and deal with insecurity amongst others,” he famous.
The governor additionally revealed that the administration plans to introduce electrical buses for each intra and inter metropolis transportation to cushion the results of elimination of gasoline subsidy.
He additionally used the discussion board to warn that the administration would make sure the arrest and prosecution of suspected pension fraud syndicate within the state.
In accordance with him, the administration will swing into motion as soon as it gathered sufficient proof and details about the people no matter their standing within the state.
Otti expressed regrets that some opposition members had been castigating the administration over its choice to analyze, arrest and prosecute the suspects.
“We’ll proceed with our efforts to sanitise the civil service. I’m certain you’ll have heard some studies about some civil servants who have been concerned in pension fraud.
“From the report I bought, about ten or eleven of them. A few of them are exterior the nation. We’re going to repatriate them to reply to the state of their sins,” Otti vowed.
