Good days for Ondo workers as Akeredolu makes salaries a priority
*Sets up committee on 7 months unpaid salaries
Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, has set up a committee to look into the accumulated seven month salary arrears of state workers and how to solve the problem.
At a meeting with the state workers on Monday in Akure, the state capital, the newly sworn in governor said the committee would be headed by the state Accountant-General, Mr. Akindolire Herbart Olaolu, and few other senior government officers.
According to him, the workers in the state deserved their monthly wages adding that their welfare would be one of the priorities of his administration.
The governor who addressed the state workers at the government office ground also said that he knew what the workers were going through. His words, “I am aware of the agonies you (civil servants) are going through without being paid your salaries.”
He stressed that his government would ensure civil servants get their salaries and arrears paid as at when due.
He also begged the strike health workers in the state to resume work in the interest of the dying patients in the government hospital.
“I am appealing to the doctors and health workers in the state who are currently on strike to please resume work.
“Let them come back and we can now sit and have a discussion on the table through negotiations”. Akeredolu said.
