By Ifere Paul
The Cross River State government has brought out a new style of payment to its numerous appointees.
According to reliable information, the government is now giving its appointees a particular form to fill. Appointees are mandated to sign that they have been paid a certain amount which is what the revenue mobilization has authorized.
Going by the over bloated appointments in the promise to expand his administration and job creation, Ben Ayade of Cross River State has so far appointed over 1000 people into his exco. Appointees were made to accept to sign an undertaking for a 50% cut in salaries.
Some of the appointees who had collected their letters of appointment has since began collecting the other 50% of their salaries.
However, following an EFCC discovery of financial misappropriation and a deficit of over 700 Million Naira in government account books, the Governor has issued another type of form to all appointees to sign. The form mandates the appointees to sign a certain amount of money they have never been paid since they resumed their new appointment.
A little breakdown of the new swindling scheme is as follows:
1. PAs that are paid 150 Thousand Naira are made to sign that they have been collecting 300 Thousand Naira.
2. SAs that are paid 200 Thousand Naira are made to sign that they have been collecting 400 Thousand Naira.
3. Commissioners that are paid 250 are made to sign that they have been collecting 500 Thousand Naira.
4. Board Chairmen & Chairwomen that have been collecting 400-500 Thousand Naira are now made to sign that they have been collecting 800 Thousand Naira-I Million Naira.
According to a confidante in the government house, this scheme has been going on secretly ever since the time EFCC started inviting members of the State Executives.
It is however unclear what the government intends to achieve now since EFCC has already established that monies have been misappropriated and all records are right now undergoing a forensic study. Most family members of the Ayade family who are appointees have all signed the new form and are encouraging their close friends to comply with the governor unless they want to be sacked.
This story has already been confirmed by appointees who have signed the forms and a lot others that refused signing. One appointee who took the form home, was encouraged by his father who is a lawyer and a lecturer in the University of Calabar not to sign such form. Describing it the highest scam of all times.
