Adeleke pays off N1.6bn workers’ salary, deductions arrears

The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke on Thursday said his administration has paid the October 2022 cooperative deductions it inherited from the immediate past administration of Adegboyega Oyetola.

The governor also stated the administration paid another half salary debt, totaling seven months half salaries debt paid by the current government.

Adeleke, in a statement by his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, noted that he inherited “billions of naira in pension, cooperative deductions, and half salaries from the governments of both Oyetola and Rauf Aregbesola covering the 12 years of APC government in the state.”

He added, “Yesterday, the State Government paid the October 2022 cooperative deductions totaling Nine Hundred and Seventy-One Million, Eight Hundred and Twenty-Three Thousand, Seven Hundred and Eighty Six Naira and Fifty Nine Kobo (N971,823,786.59).

“Aside the payment of the deduction, the state government also paid a total sum of Seven Hundred and Sixteen Million, Four Hundred and One Thousand, Two Hundred and Eighty Seven Naira and Thirteen Kobo ( N716,401,287.13) for the seventh half salary payment.

“The total paid is One Billion, Six Hundred and Eighty-Eight Million, Two Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand, Seventy-Three Naira and Seventy-Two Kobo. (N1,688,225,073.72).”

Commenting further on the payment, the governor expressed commitment to the phased payments of all inherited pension, salary, and deduction debt as part of the cardinal agenda of his administration.

“I reaffirm my total commitment to easing the hardship of workers and residents of our dear state. We are deploying state resources to address the needs of various sectors of society.

“We are doing a lot on soft infrastructure from workers’ welfare to food security and food access. We are attending to students’ needs through bursary payments among others. We are daily implementing measures to attend to the health needs of our senior citizens.

“Our government has successfully combined soft and hard infrastructure. Our infra plan is going ahead with faster progress than many expected. Osun is on the fast lane of achieving a four-year plan within a midterm,” he said.