We Regret Paying Modulated Salary To Workers – Aregbesola
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state has expressed his grief over the inability of the state government to pay full salary to workers in the civil service and political appointees.
Aregbesola stated this at the weekend while addressing a team of Federal Government on the Digital Switch Over who was on advocacy visit to the state, led by the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Adelani Baderinwa.
Aregbesola said he was unhappy over the payment of modulated salary to the workers, just as he explained that not all the civil servants in the state are affected by it.
According to the governor, economic downturn induced by the brazen corruption, wanton theft of crude oil and mismanagement of the country’s resources by the then PDP Democratic Party (PDP) led Federal Government forced the state to what it is witnessing presently.
Aregbesola said that no reasonable person or government would be happy not being able to perform his/its required responsibility.
He said that the financial burden on the government was incurred to provide massive infrastructure to transform the state and develop it economically, noting that Osogbo desired infrastructure development to give it the look of a state capital.
In his address, Baderiwa, the commissioner for Information and Strategy, said that he was in support of the Digital Switch Over, saying it will provide for young and talented men and women and as well throw challenges to the lazy and unproductive workers in the media industry.
