Kwara Government Probes 21-Year Salary Non-Payment to Jebba Monarch
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.
Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez Funmi Salau Shehu Alimi Foundation Aishat Sulu-Gambari Taofik Abdulkareem Fatimoh Lawal Halidu Danbaba Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa Victor Gbenga Yusuf Lanre Olosunde Forgo Battery Omoniyi Ayinla Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi Doyin Agbamu Barakat Community Secondary School Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi Hassan Saliu Unicontinental Construction Company Waziri Yakubu Gobir Offorjama Omoniyi M. Ayinla Logun National Information Technology Development Agency Raimi Iyanda Trader Moni Ganiyu Abolarin Umar Gunu Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye Kwara State Pension Board Hauwa Nuru Mazars Consulting Tanke Mustapha Akanbi Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo Binta Abubakar-Mora Haruna Tambiri Mohammed Kwara United Amos Bajeh Awili Pedro Offa Metropolitan Club Bayer AG Olushola Saraki Garba Ayodele Wahab Yahaya Jibril Usman Abdullahi AbdulMajeed Ibrahim Sulu Gambari Issa Baba Yusuf Zulu-Gambari Ilorin Anchor Men And Women Allocation Sun Qing Rong Rafiu Ibrahim Amada Jidda Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye Yusuf Abubakar Aishat Mohammed Lawal Folorunsho Erubu Madawaki Olokoba Ridwan Agboola SARS Erubu Sabo-Oke Yahya Mohammed Isiaka Gold AbdulRauf Keji Folajimi Aleshinloye Ajia-Bako Isaac Gbenle Jare Olatundun Abdulrosheed Okiki Temi Kolawole Muhammadu Buhari Abubakar Kawu Baraje Ahman Patigi Abdullahi Atanda Trade Lenda SME Fair

