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.

Kola Olota     Issa Oloruntogun     Amule     Ike Ekweremadu     Sobi Hill     First Lady     Salman Suleiman     Adaramaja     Ahman Pategi University     Coronavirus     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Ileloke     Olushola Saraki     Musa Alhassan Buge     Afetu Of Alabe     Sheikh Ariyibi     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Waheed Ibrahim     Ajidagba     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Owo Isowo     Bolakale Saka     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Smart School     Kayode Ogunlowo     Olam Food Ingredients     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Muazam Nayaya     Nagode     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Crystal Corner Shops     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     Mashood Dauda     Saad Belgore     Popo-Igbonna     Toyin Olayinka Tejidini     Ilofa     Sanitation Exercise     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Samari     Oyawoye     Olatunji Ayeni     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Mike Omotosho     Alore     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Ojuekun     John Obuh     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Oluranti Idowu     Oke-Ogun     Toyin Saraki     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     Sa\'adu Salahu     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Najim Yaasin     Isiaka Danmeromu     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Moronfoye     Elese Of Igbaja     Zainab Abass     Falokun-Oja     Dan Iya     Principal Private Secretary     2023 Elections     Olatunde Olukoya     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Funmi Salau     Ganmo     IFK     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Oke Sunna     Special Agro-Industrial Hub    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Patience Jonathan     Kwara Volleyball Association     New Model Police Station     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Tafidan Kaiama     Ajidagba     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Muhammadu Gobir     Kolawole Akande     Folaranmi Aro     Idofin     Balogin Alanamu     Wasiu Onidugbe     Smart School     Iyeru Grammar School     National Information Technology Development Agency     Tunji Moronfoye     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Oloriegbe     Ekiti     Mohammed Danjuma     Akanji     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     EFCC     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Arik     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Raliat AbdulRazaq     Onilu     Rapheal Ashaolu     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Riskat Opakunle     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Agor     Ojo Fadumila     Ogidi-Oloje     Sobi Hill     GGDSS Pakata     Alabere     Binta Sulyman     Seun Bolaji     Shola Odetundun     Nurudeen Mohammed     Kaosarah Adeyi     Oba Abu     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Sardauna     Sanitation Exercise     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Kazeem Gbolagade     Kwara State Football Association     Gbemisola Saraki     Fola Consultant     Kawu     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Isiaka Yusuf     Yinka Aluko     Kwabes     Olatunji Ibrahim     Tafida     Ahman Pategi     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Kwara 2019     Rotimi Atere     Atiku     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Maigida Soludero Transit     Mansur Alfanla