Ademola Adeleke, the Osun State Governor, has paid the October 2022 cooperative deduction inherited from the immediate past administration of Mr Gboyega Oyetola.

The Governor has paid additional half salary debt, totalling seven months half salaries debt paid by the current government.

A statement by Olawale Rasheed, the spokesperson for the governor, explained that Adeleke inherited “billions of naira in pension, cooperative deductions, and half salaries from the governments of both Gboyega Oyetola and Rauf Aregbesola, covering the 12 years of the APC government in the state.

“Yesterday, the state government paid the October 2022 cooperative deductions totaling N971,823,786.59.

“Aside from the deduction repayment, the state government also paid N716,401,287.13 for the seventh half-salary payment. The total paid is N1,688,225,073.72,” the statement read

The governor expressed commitment to the phased payments of all inherited pension, salary, and deduction debt, as part of the cardinal agenda of his administration.

“I reaffirm my total commitment to easing the hardship of workers and residents of our dear state. We are deploying state resources to address the needs of various sectors of society.

“We are doing a lot on soft infrastructure from workers’ welfare to food security and food access. We are attending to students’ needs through bursary payments, among others. We are daily implementing measures to attend to the health needs of our senior citizens.

“Our government has successfully combined soft and hard infrastructure. Our infra plan is going ahead with faster progress than many expected. Osun is on the fast lane of achieving a four-year plan within a midterm,” he said.