The exercise, announced by the office of the state Head of Service through a letter dated October 30, 2012, is part of efforts by the state government to right-size the staff of the organizations with a view to reinvigorating their operations.

In the letter addressed to the Commissioner of the supervising Ministry of Information and Communications, Prince Tunji Moronfoye, the Head of Service said Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has approved the deployments to take immediate effect.

Sixty-three of those deployed are from the state Publishing and Printing Corporation, publishers of The Herald and The Herald on Sunday newspapers, while the others are from Radio Kwara and Kwara State Television.

The state government took the step to rescue the media organizations from a bloated workforce and unbearable payroll burden that have affected capacity to pay salaries as and when due and to run stable operations.