I am not owing salaries - Governor Rauf Aregbesola

- Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state declared that the state’s civil servants have been paid salaries up to the month of June

- According to the state governor, pensioners have also been paid, except for the gratuity owed to some of them who left service in 2011/2012

- The governor claimed that his administration had achieved this great feat, despite the huge economic challenges confronting Nigeria

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state says he is not owing civil servants salaries, NAN reports.

Aregbesola said this on Wednesday, July 26, in Osogbo, at a symposium organized by the Osun command of the Police Community Relations Committee.

The governor said in spite of the economic challenges confronting the nation and the state in particular, his administration had not failed in paying workers regularly.

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Aregbesola said he was aware of the insinuation being peddled by those he regarded as adversaries to incite the public against his administration.

He however, said workers in the state had been paid up to June.

“Let me make a resounding correction that despite the paucity of funds, it is only a section of workers on grade level 12 and above who receive painfully 50 percent of their gross salaries based on agreement between the government and the labour union.

“So, outside that category of workers on grade level 12 and above, no other receives half of his or her salaries and the workers in this category are just 20 percent of the state’s workforce.

“Outside that, officers on levels 8-10 receive 75 percent of their salaries while officers on levels 7 and below receive their full pay.

“Contrary to what the naysayers claim about us, all workers in the state have received their salaries up to June this year according to the payment scheme and agreement.

“As we pay active workers, so we pay pensioners.

“The only outstanding pay to pensioners is the gratuity and this is due to workers who choose not to participate in the Contributory Pension Scheme and therefore left service in 2011/2012,’’ the governor said.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the Osun state chapter of the Labour Party called on anti-graft agencies in the country to take a critical look into the malpractice allegedly perpetrated by the Rauf Aregbesola-led state government.

The opposition party in a statement issued by its chairman Tunji Olatunji, noted that the probe had become imperative following the inability of the state government to pay backlog of workers’ salaries and other problems confronting the state which he said was caused by maladministration of the APC.

Watch this Legit.ng TV video of a 60-year-old civil servant lamenting over unpaid salaries:

Source: Legit.ng