Bayelsa will not access bail-out funds –Dickson

 

Bayelsa government says it will not draw its share of the N222 billion approved by the Central Bank of Nigeria for states to clear outstanding workers salaries.
The Bayelsa government, in a statement signed by Mr Daniel Iworiso-Markson, Chief Press Secretary to Bayelsa Governor, said Gov. Dickson was not ready to enslave future generation of Bayelsa people to a debt burden.
I am not like others who will go and take facilities and loans and do not care what happens to the people; that is why we have not signed on the bailout funds because I am not satisfied that we will not be mortgaging the future of our people.
Dickson further stressed that the economic situation had compelled government to commit all the available funds to salary payment.
The governor called for understanding and patience from the people, stressing that his administration was only averse to mortgaging the future and was not prepared to commit the people to unnecessary credit facilities.