The Senior Special Assistant to the Kwara State Governor on Media and Communication, Dr. Muyideen Akorede, said that currently, the state Internal Revenue Service generated an average of about N1.1bn monthly. He added that for the first quarter of 2016, it generated N3.2bn.

According to Akorede, the monthly wage bill of the state currently stands at N2.4bn which includes salaries, pensions and subventions.

He noted that local government workers and members of staff of the State Universal Education Board were being owed salaries.

The Kwara State Chairman of the NLC, Mr. Yekini Agunbiade, told one of PUNCH correspondents that workers in the state tertiary institutions, parastatals and Water Corporation were also being owed some months' salary arrears. He was not sure of when the state would be able to pay the salary arrears.