Aregbesola Begins Payment Of Osun Workers’ Salaries

 
The Osun State government led by the
embattled governor, Ogbeni Rauf
Adesoji Aregbesola has begun the part
payment of salary arrears it owes his
workers.
Having being paid since February,
the Local Government Workers in
Osun State have started to collect
their March and April 2015
salaries.The alerts for the payment
have started coming in from Friday
June 26, 2015 afternoon.
It was also gathered that workers in
others categories in the state would
get their payment early next week
starting from Monday June 29, 2015
as promised by Governor Rauf
Aregbesola.
Impeccable sources in the state
revealed that labour unions rejected
the option by the government to pay
them two to three months and
return to their duties posts.
They insisted that they (workers)
would collect nothing less than five
months salaries before they would
call off the on-going strike in the
state.
The State Chairman of the Nigeria
Labour Congress (NLC), Jacob
Adekomi, was said to have handed
down the decision during a meeting
with government officials in the
state.
But, the government made it clear
that there was no way it could raise
five months salaries at once
presently, and that payment had to
be gradual.