Why Political Appointees’ Salaries Exceeded N1bn – Bayelsa Govt

The method advisor to the Bayelsa State Governor connected Treasury and Accounts, Timinipre Seipolu, has explained wherefore the full wage expenditure for governmental appointees successful the authorities precocious roseate to implicit N1 billion.

According to him, nary governmental appointee successful Bayelsa is placed connected a fixed wage scale, arsenic appointments are made based connected circumstantial administrative demands.

Speaking connected Friday successful Yenagoa during a transparency briefing for August and September 2025, Seipolu clarified that payments to appointees are guided strictly by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) policy, not by immoderate arbitrary increase.

He said, “When radical are appointed, they are paid salaries based connected the RMAFC policy. We are inactive wherever we person ever been successful presumption of wage levels. What changed is the fig of appointees due to the fact that immoderate caller boards were precocious inaugurated.”

He further revealed that the state’s finances stay stable, noting that Bayelsa recorded a closing equilibrium of N106.5 cardinal successful August 2025 and N150.5 cardinal successful September 2025, reflecting steadfast gross maturation wrong the period.

Meanwhile, the commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Koku Obiyai, said the authorities is prioritising the wellness assemblage by approving the regular employment of wellness officers crossed the state.

Obiyai said the determination became indispensable owed to the expanding fig of aesculapian workers leaving the state done the Japa syndrome.

She added that the “Prosperity Administration” led by Governor Douye Diri was determined to fortify the wellness strategy and amended nationalist work delivery.

“Even successful the hospitals, we person wide employment due to the fact that of the Japa Syndrome. When they leave, we regenerate them. The authorities values the wellness assemblage and is committed to ensuring hospitals are not understaffed,” she said.

The commissioner explained that the transparency briefings are portion of the state’s effort to beforehand accountability and openness successful governance, adding that the workout allows Bayelsans to cognize however authorities revenues are received and spent monthly.

“We judge that transparency is simply a mode of gathering trust. As a government, we judge that accountability is key. Citizens should beryllium informed astir however resources are spent and Governor Douye Diri is committed to completing each ongoing projects,” Obiyai said.

She listed immoderate large projects presently ongoing crossed the state, including the Igbogene-AIT Ring Road, Glory Drive, Yenagoa-Oporoma Road, Ekeremor-Agge Road and the Polako-Sabagreia Road, noting that each are progressing steadily.

She besides spoke connected the state’s state turbine powerfulness project, assuring that erstwhile completed, it would boost industrialisation and economical growth. According to her, the turbine installation is ongoing and would guarantee that homes are metered and charged based connected vigor consumed.

The commissioner added that the authorities does not beryllium immoderate contractors, arsenic payments are made based lone connected verified work. She stressed that nary caller projects volition beryllium started until each existing ones are completed to guarantee businesslike assets management.

“We are moving tirelessly to physique a unchangeable system that benefits everyone. All Bayelsans should rally circular the politician truthful helium tin decorativeness beardown and spot Bayelsa connected the planetary map,” she said.