Aregbesola Fulfils His Promise, Pays One Month Salary To Workers

Gov. Rauf Aregbesola

Osogbo the Osun State Capital was today threw into the state of confusion among the civil servants of the state when they started seeing the result of the promise the state Governor made about three weeks ago while assuring them of the payment of their eight month outstanding salaries.

Information from a source in Osogbo said people started seeing the credit alert from their different banks around 12 noon, but little did they have to be happy about when they found out that it was a payment for just one month of about four or five months been expected by them. 

A secondary school teacher who pleaded anonymity, while explaining her ordeal said she saw the credit alert around 2pm today Tuesday 30^th June, but was surprised to found out that it was just for a month payment.

She said “I notice a message on my phone and opened to check it. I was happy to see it was a credit alert, but when I read through it, I was down in spirit. It was a credit alert of payment of December salary. There's still some institution which has not even been paid their November salary in full, they were paid their November salary instalmentally and are so far been paid 70% of their November salary.  

 I couldn’t just dare go to the bank now to claim any money because I had already taken overdraft which the bank had deducted from the salary payment before sending this alert to me”. 

We don’t know how long we have to go through this in Osun State? We have children in the school where we need to pay their fees, we have house rent to pay, we have to provide food to the children and other inevitable daily money required activities in the house, we also have dependable aged parents to care for” she concluded.

Osun State is one of the other states in the country which has in the last week meet President Buhari for a financial bailout option from the Federal Government for failing to meet up with the payment of her workers’ salaries for past eight months.