Kwara Government Probes 21-Year Salary Non-Payment to Jebba Monarch

Date: 2024-05-21

According to News report from Punch, The Kwara State Government is investigating the non-payment of salaries and emoluments to Oba Abdulkadir Adebara, the Oba of Jebba, in Moro Local Government Area, for the past 21 years.

This was disclosed by the State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar Bata, on Monday.

Successive governments since 2003 have failed to pay the salaries of the 103-year-old monarch, who has spent over 21 years on the throne, despite a state High Court judgment ordering the upgrade and payment of the monarch's salaries.

Bata addressed the issue during a ministerial briefing on the achievements of Governor Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in his first year of the second term in office. He explained that the non-payment of the monarch's salary is a long-standing issue.

The Commissioner provided these details while responding to questions from reporters in Ilorin.

Bata said, “The issue of payment to salaried Oba of Jebba is a long-standing problem that this administration inherited. Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq is well aware of the problem. This ministry is also aware.

“A lot of report has been written to us and I want to assure that the governor has directed to investigate the issue to know the problem so that a lasting solution to the issue is found. By the grace of God we are on top of it and we will find a lasting solution to it.”

Bata stressed that the government had made available a quantum of funds to pay some ungraded chiefs in the state, adding that no fewer than 500 chiefs in both Kwara Central and Kwara North Senatorial zones were identified and paid their emoluments in the last month.

He said that about 150 chiefs were identified in Kaiama Emirate while equal numbers were identified in the three Emirates in Edu local government as well as one Emirate in Patigi local government.

He said that many classrooms were built by the local government administration in the 16 local government areas of the state.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Atiku     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Sam Onile     Shonga     Yahya Mohammed     Saka Onimago     Usman Alkali Baba     Halimah Perogi     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Hijab     JUSUN     Kumbi Titiloye     Nigeria Customs Service     Shehu Jimoh     Lucky Omoluwa     Shonga Farm Project     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Ike Ekweremadu     Orisun Igbomina     Rashidi Yekini     Mufutau Olatinwo     IYA ALFA NLA     Pilgrims Board     Www.Kwarareports.com     Kwabes     Adebara     N-Power     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Ado Bayero     Alao Ayotunde     COEASU     Olokoba Sulyman     Wahab Egbewole     Ayinke Saka     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Ladi Hassan     Agor     Just Law Forum     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Tunde Saad     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Ilorin Durbar     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Tinubu     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Ile Arugbo     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Bashirat Bola Bello     IHS Towers     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Yekeen Alabi     Dan Masanin     Alfa Belgore     Ibrahim Bio     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Aliyu U. Tilde     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Tafida     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Adedeji Onimago     NNPP     John Obuh     TVC Female National Debate     Kayode Yusuf     GGDSS Pakata     Folorunsho Erubu     Yakub Lai Gobir     Yemi Osinbajo     Toyin Falola     College Of Health     Budo-Egba     Halimat Yusuf     Young Progressives Party     Bayo Ojo    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ademola Kiyesola     Face Masks     Oke-Odo     Firdaos Amasa     Ibrahim Orire     Pakata     SAPZ Project     Amule     Mohammed Abdulahi     Share     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Ibrahim Jawondo     Femi Oladiji     Ahman Pategi     Durosinlohun Atiku     Shonga     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Adamu Atta     Issa Manzuma     Yusuf Mubarak     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Odolaye Aremu     Rueben Parejo     3MTT     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Oniwa     Olatinwo     Turaki Of Ilorin     Omupo     Gurei     Igosun     Gamji Members Association     AbdulHamid Adi     Abdulwaheed Musa     Amusement Park     Rebecca Bake     Akume     Harrison Osauwagboe     Tunji Arosanyin     Baba Idris     Shehu Salau     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Aminu Ado Bayero     Wole Oke     KWIRS     Tafida Of Kaiama     COVID     Jare Olatundun     Eghe Igbinehin     Chikanda     Facemasks     Kannike     Basic Education Certificate Examination     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Olugbense     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Ajikobi     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Sunday Popo-Ola     Kayode Zubair     Shettima     Adekunle David Dunmade     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Abdullahi Atanda     Sarkin Malamai     AbdulRaheem Ahmad Shayi     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Rafiu Olasile     Kwara Polytechnic     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Amos Justus Sayo     Yunus Lawal     Trader Moni     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Baba-Isale