Officials of the Communities and Finance ministries are set to meet with the Local Government Commission (LGC) after discovering that the 2019 employment cost for its commissioners and staff will account for 91.4% of its total budgetary allocation for the year.
The ministry made the announcement in a press release on Friday, when it also disclosed that releases have been made for payment of salaries of the staff of the Local Government Commission for the month of January, 2019. It explained that while submissions for payment were made, the releases request to the Ministry of Finance was not made in time for payment of salaries on January 16th, 2019.
