{"id":37101,"date":"2015-03-26T10:26:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T09:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=37101"},"modified":"2015-03-26T10:26:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T09:26:16","slug":"why-i-cannot-pay-five-months-salaries-explains-gov-aregbesola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/why-i-cannot-pay-five-months-salaries-explains-gov-aregbesola\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I cannot pay five months salaries explains Gov. Aregbesola"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Wednesday opened up on his inability to pay the salaries of workers in&#8230;\u00a0the state for five months, blaming it on \u201cdeclining federal allocation.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>The governor made the open confession at the 7th Bola Tinubu Colloquium organised to mark Tinubu\u2019s 63rd birthday in Lagos.<br \/>\nHe said he was deeply pained and unhappy that he had not been able to pay workers salaries.<br \/>\n\u201cI have found it hard to pay the wage bills owing to the declining federal allocation to the state.<br \/>\n\u201cFederal allocation to the state has reduced by 40 per cent since 2013, making it difficult for government to meet up its responsibilities,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nAregbesola said the situation became so bad at a time that he resorted to the state\u2019s reserves and exhausted it on payment of salaries.<br \/>\nThe governor added that the government went ahead to accumulate debt of N12 billion in its bid to ensure that salaries were paid.<br \/>\nHe said that he would not mind to borrow more \u201cjust to ensure that workers were paid but the \u201cbanks would not grant more loans.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said: \u201cOsun is next to Lagos in the sheer size of its civil service.<br \/>\n\u201cIn fact, the state inherited 50 per cent of all the workers in the old western state and more than 75 per cent in the old Oyo State.<br \/>\n\u201cI was meeting my wage bill of over N3.6 billion with N4.6 billion federal allocation until July, 2013 when the Federal Government announced a decline of about 40 per cent allocation to states.<br \/>\n\u201cThis reduced the state\u2019s allocation from N4.6 billion with which I was meeting my bills to N2.6 billion.<br \/>\n\u201cSince then, Osun has had to augment salaries by sometimes N1 billion, sometimes N1.6 billion.<br \/>\n\u201cBefore the last time I paid salaries in November, 2014, I have had to either spent the state\u2019s reserves on salaries or borrow money.<br \/>\n\u201cToday, I have a loan of N12 billion that we spent on salaries and I could not go to the banks anymore.\u201d<br \/>\nThe governor said that his administration remained pro-workers in spite of the tight corner it had found itself, pledging to pay the salary arrears as soon as the means was available.<br \/>\nHe reiterated the commitment of his administration to the welfare of the people, adding that he had demonstrated the commitment with the implementation of a number of programmes.<br \/>\nHe described Tinubu as \u201can icon through whom many great leaders had risen\u201d<br \/>\nSource: PMNews<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Wednesday opened up on his inability to pay the salaries of workers in&#8230;\u00a0the state for five months, blaming it on \u201cdeclining federal allocation.\u201d The&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why I cannot pay five months salaries explains Gov. 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