*Osun Govt Admits Paying Modulated Workers’ Salaries For 14 Months*

*Osun Govt Admits Paying Modulated Workers’ Salaries For 14 Months*

Osun State Government on Wednesday admitted that some civil servants in the state have not been receiving their full salaries for at least 14 months. The State Commissioner for Information, Mr Adelani Baderinwa, said during a phone interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today.

“We are owing workers on levels eight to 13, 25 per cent of their salary for about 14, 15 months now; and those of levels 14 and above, 50 percent of their salary,” he said. “As a matter of fact, and to be sure that government is very keen on the welfare of workers; when the second tranche of Paris Club refund came, we quickly paid two months of the 25 and 50 percent being owed.”

Baderinwa’s comments come hours after the workers embarked on an industrial action over what they termed government’s inability to pay their full salaries. Prior to the strike, the state government had appealed to the aggrieved workers to be patient with a promise that the trying times would end soon.