The Governor of Osun state has thrown yet another bombshell in the way of the state’s civil servant as he has disclosed that the State Government will not be able to pay March salaries to its workers.
According to the The Executive Governor of the state, Rauf Aregbesola, the state only got an allowance of N6.23 million from the Federal allocation for the month of March, he added that the amount in itself was not enough to cater electricity bills for the state secretariat.
The Cable News agency reported that “according to the accountant-general of the federation , the state got a gross statutory allocation of N1.677 billion for February, slightly above the allocation for Ekiti, Ebonyi, Kwara and Bayelsa.
“Osun also got N19.418 million and N726.1 million from the exchange rate gain and value added tax, resulting in a total gross amount of N2.423 billion for the month.The total allocation for Osun was seen to be higher than Nasarawa, Kwara, Gombe, Ekiti and Ebonyi.
“However, with the removal of the N70.989 million, N945.881 million and N1.400 billion in external debt, Irrevocable Standing Payment Order (ISPO), and other debts, the state was left with a net allocation of N6.23 million.”