Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu
Ondo State Government has disclosed its monthly expenditure, pledging not to sack workers whatever the economic situation.
In a statement titled: “Figures Don’t Lie, But We Won’t Sack Like Them,” it gave the analysis of its monthly expenditure profile, saying that Organised Labour sits with its officials led by the Head of Service, to decide the mode of payment every month.
According to the analysis, FAAC has been less than 2.4b monthly in the last three months, while VAT has been between 1.8 and 1.9b
and Mineral exchange has been between 1.6 and 1.7b.
It said that IGR has dropped drastically since Covid-19; Amid these inflows are compulsory deductions from past administrations’ loans…for instance, we just defrayed the last administration’s Bond five months ago; Core Civil Service 1.6b; Tescom 1.3b State Pension 950m; and Judiciary 170m.
Others include: Hope Newspaper 10m; Subvention to four tertiary institutions 520m; Teaching hospital 170m; Ad Hoc staff 35m; Gratuity 200m; Leave Bonus 193m; OSOPADEC 250m; Statutory Directors in the Ministry ought not to be more than six, considering the number of departments; but there are 220 Directors on a monthly pay of not less than 250k; LG Staff 1.3b; SUBEB 700m; and LG Pension 980m.
It said that in Akure South alone, there are over 21 Grade Level 16 officers who may not be willing to teach in classrooms; Monthly salary wage of Political Office Holders is less than 100m; Let’s now have a comparative analysis of the number of Permanent Secretaries in neighbouring states….Ekiti has 15, Osun has 5, Oyo has 10….Ondo over 60.
It added that in the Health Sector, there are three main arms…HMB, Ministry of Health and Primary Health Care. In Ekiti, Medical Doctors are 98, Osun 56, Oyo 102, Ondo 516(excluding newly recruited Medical Doctors in the Pry Health Care who have not been admitted into the payroll)….these include all Tertiary Health Institutions.
It vowed: “Yet, we will rather evolve ingenious means to weather the storm; we won’t sack 10,000 Local Government staff or any other, as was the case under them.”
