Backlogs: Kwara ex-councillors to meet COS, today

Date: 2016-12-19

Former councillors in the state under the aegis of ex-councillors forum will be meeting today with the Chief of Staff, Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab, in order to negotiate the payment of their backlog of salaries from the N5bn Paris Club refund received recently.

This is coming on the heels of agitations from the immediate past 193 councillors across the 16 local governments in the state over their long overdue salaries. In a telephone conversation with the chairman of the forum yesterday, Opeyemi Adeojo lamented to our reporter how members with health challenges have lost their lives as they could not afford hospital bills.

He said the government owed eight months salaries, N1.16million as furniture allowance and gratuities.

Adeojo however urged Governor Ahmed to fulfil his promise by paying up the backlogs from the Paris Club refund, adding that he should at least pay some months from to alleviate the condition of many who are desperately in need of the money.

"For now, no payment has been made into our accounts, the ex-councillors executives were with the Chief of Staff on Friday, there is another meeting with him tomorrow (today) and that is when we will be able to determine our fate. We've earlier met him to express our plights to the governor so that he can pay us from the 5billion refund. After all, they've said the money will be used principally to clear backlogs"

"Many of our members have died since there is no money for them to address their health challenges; we are even planning to take pictures of some of them who are currently on hospital beds to demand for special and urgent assistance," Adeojo added.

According to him, non-payment of their salaries has led to the death of their members in Isin, Offa and Ifelodun while another from Ilorin South is currently critically ill, calling for urgent monetary attention from the government.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Post-utme     Kwara Polytechnic     Mohammed Haruna     Kwara Central     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Sardauna     Akorede     Ajikobi     Muhammed Akanbi     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Adebayo Salami     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Baba-Isale     Ibrahim Mohammed     Hassan A. Saliu     Aro Yahaya     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Folorunsho Erubu     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Ogbondoroko     CT Ayeni     Elekoyangan     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Aliyu Alhassan     Abubakar Aliagan     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Galland Marcias     Ajike People Support Centre     Bayer AG     Quarry Royal Valley     Teachers Specific Allowance     Aremu Bose Deborah     Ope Saraki     Coronavirus     Maryam Nurudeen     Mohammed Ibrahim     Olusola Saraki     Agor Market     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Suleman Abubakar     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Jebba     AbdulRauf Keji     Ilorin International Airport     SDP     Kayode Ishola     Alfa Belgore     Yakubu Danladi     Lateef Alagbonsi     Bukola Saraki     Kunle Suleiman     Abdullahi Atanda     Kolawole Akande     Salau Kabiru Abdullahi     John Kehinde Salako     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     James Ayeni     Odo-Owa     Centre For Digital Economy     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Bola Shagaya     Dan Iya     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Ilorin Durbar     Awili Pedro     Lai Gobir     Charcoal     Sodiya     Summit University    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Logun     Kulende-UITH     Ekweremadu     Saeedat Aliyu     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Orire     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Kunle Okeowo     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Ilorin General Hospital     Joseph Offorjama     Edret Sabi Abel     AbdulRauf Keji     JSSCE     NULGE     Nurudeen Mohammed     Yusuf Abubakar     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Police Commissioner     Amule Elementary School     Omoniyi     Kunle Suleiman     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Musibau Akanji     Balogun-Ojomu     High Court     Bolaji Nagode     Samuel Adaramola     Abubakar Atiku     Hauwa Nuru     Summit University     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Lai Mohammed     Naira Redesign     Olokoba     Okin High School     Yusuf Badmus     Ilesha-Baruba     Elerinjare     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf     Samari     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Kayode Bankole     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     Ita-Nmo Market     20 Billion Bond     Olatunde Michaels     Michael Nzekwe     Ilofa     Asa LGEA School     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Kazeem Gbolagade     Owu Fall     Egbejila     SGBN     Orisa Bridge     Moremi High School     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     UNILORIN Alumni     Ishaq Oloyede     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Umaru Saro     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Alapado     Share/Tsaragi     Folashade Omoniyi     Funmilayo Zubair     ER-KANG Mining     Issa Oloruntogun     Rotimi Oyedepo     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Garba Idris Ajia