Over 400 hungry Osun kings, chiefs beg Gov Adeleke to pay their seven months’ salaries
Over 400 hungry Osun kings, chiefs beg Gov Adeleke to pay their seven months’ salaries
“Governor Ademola Adeleke, we the kings are hungry. You are starving us, the kings and also the chiefs. Pay us our salaries; you have not paid us for seven months,” he said.
Seventeen traditional rulers and 440 chiefs in Odo-Otin council area of Osun have gone seven months without salaries, prompting the Oloyan of Oyan to appeal to Governor Ademola Adeleke for intervention.
The monarch made the appeal in a video circulating on social media, lamenting the financial hardships allegedly facing the traditional rulers and chiefs over the non-payment of their salaries.
“Governor Ademola Adeleke, we the kings are hungry. You are starving us, the kings and also the chiefs. Pay us our salaries; you have not paid us for seven months,” he said.
The complaint came amid the prolonged dispute over control of local government council and the release of statutory allocations in Osun, which has affected the councils’ finances.
