The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said the N70,000 new minimum wage for civil and public servants in the state will be funded by revenue inflow savings from government expenditure as a result of nuanced reforms by his government over the past seven and a half years.
According to him, these include the e-gov platform which has eliminated the need for the purchase of papers and investment in the Ossiomo Power Project which is saving the government millions of naira for diesel purchase, among others.
The governor said: “I have been a private sector person for most of my career before I ventured into the public sector. With that training and background, we don’t just make statements without careful analysis of our revenue flow and expenditures and then analyze how we are going to go about ensuring that we can live up to our promise.
We have been very strategic in Edo State. We embarked on a very radical reform of the civil and public service.
