The moods of civil servants in Ondo State has been lighted up as the new governor, Rotimi Akeredolu of the APC pays their salaries after an extensive period of financial drought under the previous administration of Dr. Olusegun Mimiko.
Gov Rotimi Akeredolu
In fulfillmemt of the promise of the Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, to start the payment of workers’ salaries from the first month of his inauguration, civil servants in the state have received their salaries for the month of February.
Akeredolu, who inherited a backlog of seven months salary from the immediate past government, made a public declaration of his intention to make workers’ welfare a priority during the swearing-in of his administration on February 24, 2017 at the Akure township stadium.
The governor authorised the payment of the workers’ salaries, beginning from that of February 2017.
Akeredolu, however, assured the workers of his administration’s plan to pay the arrears soon.
It will be recalled that a day after Akeredolu assumed office as governor, he set up a committee headed by the Accountant-General of the state, Albert Olaolu Akindolie, to work out the modality for the payment of the workers’ salary arrears.