Former governor of Osun state, Rauf Aregbesola on Monday defended the issue of salary, saying that rumours of owed salaries in Osun during his tenure was due to mischief and ignorance.
Aregbesola made this known during his turn for ministerial screening and confirmation before the Nigerian Senate.
Aregbesola tells Senate, “We (Osun State Government) ensured between July 2015 and July 2018 that public servants on level one to seven and they constitute about 72 per cent in the state earned their full pay, contrary to the belief that every civil servant was paid 50 per cent.”
“By 2014, our nation was in distress, and virtually all states had difficulty with salaries.
“We came up with an approach that there is no month that any public official did not have salary every month,” he said
