 In Benrey State, as political activities towards 2023 gears up, civil servants in the state have not been owed up to three-month salaries. The state's governor, Samuel Orton, in an interactive session with journalists at the government house in Makodi, said it has become difficult to pay salaries of workers because of the rising cost of overheads, the inability of the NNPC to remit money to the federal accrual, and the state's low internally generated revenue as a result of insecurity. He added that the state is making efforts to overcome the challenge. The cost of overhead is one. The second one is, for several months now, the inability of NNPC to remit money to the federal accrual. The other fact can be attributed to the new idea which is as a result of insecurity has been difficult to coordinate the collection of IGN. And the total amount is because over five million IDVs in various countries to do business and to complement the salaries that are paid to workers. So this has created a lot of difficulty. According to the governor, the state does not have powers to borrow money to pay salaries except with the permission of the federal Ministry of Finance that's management office. There are certainly different powers that are important to pay salaries. The unfortunate difference with the state is that we don't have the right to borrow money from the state otherwise how can I say it? How can you say it? The direct translation of some of the questions is what you're trying to do. And I really do do that. But as a state, we have this issue about the federal Ministry of Finance to deal with. But the federal Ministry of Finance deserves to stay.