Delay In Payment Of March Salary: We’ve Been Proven Right – Osun APC

Osun state APC on Thursday  sympathized with  civil servants in the state  over the delay in the payment of salary to them for the month of March 2023 ditto, the payment of promotion arrears.

  It will be recalled that Governor Ademola Adeleke had explained a few days ago, that ongoing computation of promotion arrears of civil servants, who were promoted four years ago without a pay rise, caused the delay.

‘The state government   that  had disclosed  that all efforts were in top gear to pay both the  salary for the month of March  and the promotion arrears latest on Monday failed woefully to redeem its pledge as the expectant government workers had their hopes dashed.

To the consternation of the government workers, the alerts for the payment of their old salaries started creeping in the early hours of Tuesday without the promised promotion arrears.

This delay in the payment of salary and the outright refusal of Adeleke to honour his pledge in respect of the payment of promotion arrears have become a very big issue in the state as it is on record that throughout the four-year tenure of former Governor Gboyega Oyetola, payment of salaries occupied a first-line charge priority attention.

It was observed that the government workers were pained by the disappointment on the part of the barely four-month-old Governor Adeleke administration because the governor had made it his campaign promise that hat he would never exceed 26th of the month before paying the workers.’ the state APC  acting chairman , Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, submitted  in a statement  made available to Team@orientactualmags.com  by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi on Thursday.

The statement asserted that the party has been proven right with regard to its earlier assertion that  Governor  Adeleke  will not keep his word in respect of what he had assured  the government workers.

Lawal, who  added that his party had  foresaw the present predicament of the Adeleke administration , noted  that it was not envisaged  that it would be so early in coming as ‘it’s pretty difficult for anyone to give what he doesn’t possess’.

He disclosed that his party, all along, knew that the Adeleke administration would hit the rock.

‘We sympathize with the entire inhabitants of the state in general and the government workers in particular over their traumatic experience in respect of the payment of salary for the month of March  and absolute denial of their promotion arrears as earlier promised them by Governor Adeleke. 

I am moved to tears when I thought of those of you who had hoped to pay the school fees of your children in various schools using the failed largesse promised you by this government in transit.

How about some of you who are nursing one ailment or the other and have been relying on the scuttled promotion arrears which cannot be said with the air of finality whether it would ever be paid?

When we sounded a note of warning concerning the issue at stake a few days ago, some political jobbers would not allow us to breathe with an unsubstantiated allegation that we were playing a dirty politics with the Adeleke administration’s financial conundrum.

It is not that we are totally disappointed with the prevailing situation of the financial status in Osun State as no miracle can be expected from someone who has no history of doing any business in his life’ the party said.

 The statement also emphasized the need to commend  Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola for showing what the party called  ‘financial wizardry’  as Chief Executive of the state.

‘The blowing whirlwind has exposed the anus of the proverbial fowl which makes  covering it up an impossible Utopia.

A financial expert is different from a reckless spender while it is a leader who makes money that he spends that is qualified to be called a performer and not someone who stumbles on the money that he didn’t work for and squandered same without considering the need for probity and accountability.

I will implore the people of the state to be prayerful that the reverse gear in which the administration of the state is currently being thrown into would not be long before it is made to say bye to it.

Once again, it will not be an exaggeration to state that former Governor Oyetola needs to be commended for his financial wizardry when he was in charge which fits perfectly into an axiom that ‘the head of an elephant is not a worthy load for a toddler’ and that ‘governance is not a tea party’ the statement said-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you