Oyo: We deserve explanation over your claim on 115,000 workers, N11b wage bill – Alao tackles Makinde
Seyi Makinde, over his claim that the state is currently paying N11 billion as salaries to one hundred and fifteen thousand workers in the state’s payroll.
He said, “Presently, Oyo State has 115,000 civil servants and a wage bill of N11 billion per month, which is just 1.4 per cent of the total population. We can’t employ all the strong and energetic people in the state. Our job is to ensure we create opportunities that will be appealing to the private sector so they can come in and provide employment opportunities for 10 percent of the population who are presently unemployed and create more opportunities to attract further investment.
He said, in the statement entitled, “Inflation of number of Oyo State workforce to 115,000 with monthly wage bill of N11b by Governor Makinde: Our people deserve explanation”, that as at the time the immediate past governor, Abiola Ajimobi was leaving office in May 2019, there were 100,000 workers with wage bill of N5.2b.
“As at the time the immediate past governor was leaving office in May 2019, His Excellency, Senator Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi gave the total number of workforce in the state as 100,000 and their wage bill some N5.2b. This statement by Senator Ajimobi was even corroborated by Governor Makinde in August 2019.
“From investigations among the state workforce, it was discovered that the implementation of the new minimum wage was a ruse as it has had no significant effect on the take-home of some of the civil servants. How do you describe the status of a civil servant on GL 7 who was earning N40,000 before the minimum wage regime and now he is earning N46,000? So, he/she has just got an increment of N6,000.
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