The governor of Osun state, Rauf Aregbesola
has expressed his sadness and pain over his
inability to pay his workers their monthly
salaries for about seven months now.
While delivering a Ramadan Lecture at the
Women Development Centre, Abuja yesterday
June 22nd, Aregbesola said his administration
borrowed N25billion from banks to support
the federal allocations to pay salaries but that
the banks have since stopped lending the
state money.

“It is extremely painful that I cannot pay
salary. It is painful that I have to be in this
condition. I am not helpless because I have
Allah and the people with me. And whoever
has Allah and the people has everything. I
didn’t envisage that 400,000 barrels of crude
oil would be stolen daily. But the whipping
boys must be the governors and I am the
‘Chief’ of the whipping boys,” he said.
He added that the state’s wage bill was N3.5
billion monthly and that his administration has
found it difficult to pay due to the dwindling
allocation in spite of increase in the Internally
Generated Revenue (IGR) from N900 million
to N8 billion annually.

Source: http://nigeriainfohub.com/aregbesola-regrets-inability-to-pay-workers-salaries/