Osun state governor, Rauf Aregbesola has expressed his
sadness and pain over his inability to pay his workers their
monthly salaries for about seven months now.
Delivering a Ramadan Lecture at the Women Development
Centre, Abuja, the governor used the occasion to debunk reports
that he ever said he was ‘helpless’.
He delivered a lecture titled : “Ramadan, Living in The Season of
Positive Change”at the event organised by the Al-Habibiyyah
Islamic Society.
Aregbesola said, “It is extremely painful that I cannot pay salary.
It is painful that I have to be in this condition.
“I am not helpless because I have Allah and the people with me.
And whoever has Allah and the people has everything,” he said,
assuring that he was making efforts to pay the outstanding
salaries of the civil servants soon.
He noted that the state borrowed up to N25 billion from banks
to support the allocation from the federation account to pay
workers salaries but the banks have refused to continue lending
him money.
He explained that the state’s wage bill was N3.5 billion monthly
and his administration has found it difficult to pay in the face of
dwindling allocation in spite of increase in the Internally
Generated Revenue (IGR) from N900 million to N8 billion
annually.
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