The 30 local governments in Osun state have received their full allocation for the month of July but the Adegboyega Oyetola administration is accused of forcing each of the councils to pay the state N5 million.

Sources close to the matter informed SaharaReporters that they were still being urged to credit the state account in order for the state government to pay salaries.

One source accused state officials of saying, "return it back, return it back" referring to the allocation.

“We have started receiving autonomy,” another source told SaharaReporters. “We were made to return so much to the state. We were asked to return N5 million as salary for OYES. That is the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme Cadet.”

“In each of the local governments we don’t have the same number of OYES cadet but we were asked to return N5 million flat (each).”

The source added that each local government was ordered to contribute to the counterpart funding for the implementation of the federal government-backed home-school feeding programme.

“If I am paying, you are supposed to be my responsibility. You are supposed to be answerable to me but those things are directly under the supervision of the state government."

A local government official said workers' salaries for August had yet to be paid as of the time of filing this report.

Jare Adebisi, who heads the ministry in charge of local government operations in the absence of a duly inaugurated cabinet, had in a response to claims that the state habitually paid staff in either the second or third week of the preceding month, told SaharaReporters that salaries were paid on either the first or second week.

Adebisi had also denied that the state owed local government officials, insisting that the state government was paying the salaries of local government workers.

In August, SaharaReporters reported that the state disbursed funds to the statutory account of each local government from the joint account where state and local government monthly allocations are sent to, only three times between February 2018 and June 2019.

http://saharareporters.com/2019/09/17/osun-state-demanded-n150-million-local-governments-each-month-oyes-source

Until the local governments are not compelled to answer to the state Governors and given the kind of autonomy the state governments have, the Local Governments won’t enjoy their allocation.

Absolute autonomy from the state is the answer.

Let both state and local governments answer directly and differently to the Federal for the allocation, since no state is compelled to share her revenue with the local government

Opay
K'Opay.



You need to go to Osun state to see what Aregbe rascal turned the state into.