He disclosed this to State House correspondents after meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa.
Alia said: “since we came in, I know that Benue State, on record, has the debts of all over N359 billion being pensions and gratuities, salaries and arrears.“What we’re trying to do is to see how we can renegotiate these and then to get back on a better perspective and then to forge ahead with the development of this state.”
He emphasised the importance of increasing the state’s internally generated revenue to address the financial obligations. Governor Alia said the gesture had been helpful, especially given the prevailing dire straits in terms of meeting sundry obligations to the people and tackling the challenge of Internally Displaced Persons prevalent in the state.
The governor added, “The aim being that we want to get all the IDPs back home to their ancestral homes and ancestral farmlands. Before may 29, It was very impossible for the IDPs to get back to their ancestral places, even to farm this current season, they were able to go back and do this. “We have to thank the President for taking care of the federal roads in the state. All the federal roads that cut across the state you know, were awarded and for renovation and I’m happy he took the step in that direction even before I came to plead for further support in that direction.”
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