Sam Philip
Some adhoc staffers in the 33 local government councils in Oyo State have been converted to permanent staffers.
The state Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde gave the approval for the conversion.
Giving reason for the approval, the governor said it was a move to bridge the gap in the workforce at the local government level.
He said: “We will continue to work with the local government so that our vision at the state level can also be sold to the local government administrators. When there is synergy, we can achieve more.
“For primary school teachers, their leave bonuses were last paid in 2017. The primary schools, PHCs and other things were in a bad shape. But we have paid the primary school teachers their leave bonus for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
“So, we had to figure out a way of reducing this deficit and we won’t play games with anybody because they are our own people.
“We insisted that first line items must be drawn against the LG account. It was a home-grown way of ensuring that outstanding pension and gratuities are paid. We have paid backlogs of over N18 billion in pension and we have also paid over N15 billion gratuities to retirees.”