The Kwara State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has advised the federal government to continue to intervene in the financial mess that had greeted the 36 states of the federation by distributing looted public funds recovered from political office holders in the country so as to help the states address financial challenges affecting them.

The state Chairman of the NLC, Comrade Yekeen Agunbiade, gave the advice in Ilorin over the weekend during a chat with journalists on the state of the nation.

According to him, "The distribution of such looted funds to the 36 states of the federation would assist states to meet challenges in the payment of outstanding monthly salaries to their workers."

He decried the current situation in some states where workers had not received salaries to celebrate the just concluded Maolud Nabbiy and Christmas due to non payment of their salaries by their various state governments.

Agunbiade stated that the development was occasioned by the perceived non availability of funds as claimed by some state governments in the country, adding that: "If the President Muhammadu Buhari can make funds collected from those who had looted public funds to states of the federation, it will go a long way to cushioning the effect of dwindling financial situations in some states and thereby allowing states to add values to their teeming workforce."

"Many workers cannot be promoted to the next grade level due to non availability of funds, and if the looted funds can be distributed to the states of the federation, a new lease of life would come to the teeming workforce and this would enhance productivity on the part of the workers." Agunbiade also advised the state government not to abandon local government councils in the state.

He said the state government should continue to lend financial assistance to the councils in the bid to meet the yearning of the rural populace and assist teeming workers at local government councils to move forward.

The labour leader said it was worrisome that councils in the state could not pay salaries of workers adding that: "The development has led the workers, in the 16 local government councils to go on strike for past one month now."

NLC chairman therefore called on the state government not to relent in its efforts to bring dividends of democracy to the rural populace in order to reduce poverty among the people of the grassroots.