The Commissioner for
Information, Mr. Adelani Baderinwa, said this on behalf of his principal in a
statement issued on Thursday in reaction to the 21-day strike notice given to
the governor by the Council of Academic Staff Unions of Osun State Owned
Tertiary Institutions.
Osun State Governor, Mr.
Rauf Aregbesola, has blamed the alleged financial recklessness of the past
administration of the Peoples Democratic Party for the inability of his
administration to pay full salaries to workers for the past 26 months.
The lecturers had lamented
that many of their colleagues had died as a result of hardship occasioned by
half salaries and the high tax regime. Apart from welfare issues, the lecturers
also lamented lack of well-equipped laboratories, toilets for students and poor
condition of roads in the two
polytechnics and two colleges of
education owned by the state.
But the commissioner, who
blamed the financial position of the state on the alleged maladministration of
the last PDP government appealed to the lecturers to bear with the state
government.
Baderinwa said the governor
was not happy paying modulated salaries to some categories of workers but he
assured them that the situation would change immediately the finances of the
state improved.
The statement read, “It is
doubtless that the present administration is very committed to welfare of the
workers in the state and it has demonstrated it with series of welfare packages
for the workers. The government wishes to state that the payment of modulated
salary is heart- aching and saddening as recently stated by Governor Rauf
Aregbesola.
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