The Osun State Government has revealed that it will commit over N5.1billion to pay workers salaries, leave bonuses and pension of retired civil servants in the state from the N6.314billion received as second tranche of Paris Club refunds by the state.
The State’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Adelani Baderinwa, in a statement in Osogbo, yesterday, said the large portion of the refund had been set aside for the workers in the state.
” The Government of Osun has committed sum of N5,131,680,567.59 for the payment of salary, arrears, leave bonus and pension to the workers and pensioners in the state and local government service as recommended by the Comrade Hassan Sunmonu led Revenue Allocation Committee.”
“The Sunmonu appropriation committee which comprises labour leaders in the state recommended that the arrears of July 2015, balance of leave bonus of 2015 and July 2017 salary and pension entitlements be paid from the N6.3 Paris club refund.
“Government expresses satisfaction and gratitude to the Sunmonu committee which is responsible for the fair and just appropriation of accruable funds to every sector of the government without complain from all critical and rationale stakeholders so far, and it is heartening that this contradicts the wrong assumption by some groups that it is the State Executive Council that appropriated the fund,’’the statement read in part.
