Kwara Government Probes 21-Year Salary Non-Payment to Jebba Monarch

Date: 2024-05-21

According to News report from Punch, The Kwara State Government is investigating the non-payment of salaries and emoluments to Oba Abdulkadir Adebara, the Oba of Jebba, in Moro Local Government Area, for the past 21 years.

This was disclosed by the State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar Bata, on Monday.

Successive governments since 2003 have failed to pay the salaries of the 103-year-old monarch, who has spent over 21 years on the throne, despite a state High Court judgment ordering the upgrade and payment of the monarch's salaries.

Bata addressed the issue during a ministerial briefing on the achievements of Governor Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in his first year of the second term in office. He explained that the non-payment of the monarch's salary is a long-standing issue.

The Commissioner provided these details while responding to questions from reporters in Ilorin.

Bata said, “The issue of payment to salaried Oba of Jebba is a long-standing problem that this administration inherited. Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq is well aware of the problem. This ministry is also aware.

“A lot of report has been written to us and I want to assure that the governor has directed to investigate the issue to know the problem so that a lasting solution to the issue is found. By the grace of God we are on top of it and we will find a lasting solution to it.”

Bata stressed that the government had made available a quantum of funds to pay some ungraded chiefs in the state, adding that no fewer than 500 chiefs in both Kwara Central and Kwara North Senatorial zones were identified and paid their emoluments in the last month.

He said that about 150 chiefs were identified in Kaiama Emirate while equal numbers were identified in the three Emirates in Edu local government as well as one Emirate in Patigi local government.

He said that many classrooms were built by the local government administration in the 16 local government areas of the state.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Bukola Saraki     MATTA Girls Foundation     Yahaya Dumoye     Kale Kawu     Usman Alkali Baba     Baruba     Sanitation Exercise     Alao Ayotunde     KWASAA     Ishola Abdullahi     Damilola Yusuf Adelodun     Atiku Abubakar     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen     Shuaib Olarongbe     Olupako Of Share     Kolo     Ahmed     Amoyo     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Laboratory-to-Product     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Idowu Laro     Ayegbeni     ASMAU PLAZA     IDPU     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Kwara 2023     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Minister     CBT     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Ileloke     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Ilorin.Info     Abraham Ojo     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Isiaka Gold     Jawondo     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Rashidi Yekini     Ghali Muhammed     Nnazua     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Al-Adaby     Grillo     Abubakar Aliagan     Ijakadi     Iyiola Oyedepo     Olushola Saraki     Balogun-Ojomu     Aliyu Kora Sabi     CT Ayeni     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Gaa Olobi     Ayodele Shittu     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     2023 Elections     Oluronke Adeyemi     Aso-ofi     Apado     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Share-Tsaragi     Kazeem Gbolagade     Sheikh Alimi     Moshood Bakare     Revenue Court     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Magaji Nda     Orisa Bridge     Ronke Adeyemi     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Sheriff Shagaya     Offorjama    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Bashiru Makama     Abdulrosheed Okiki     Haleeman Salman     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Rueben Parejo     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Tunji Folami     Mubarak Oladosu     Yahaya Seriki     Ilorin East     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Razak Atunwa     Yusuf Abubakar     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Mamman Saba Jibril     Salihu S. Yaru     Olabode Towoju     Bolaji Nagode     Owode Market     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     Florence Saraki     Gbenga Awoyale     MINILS     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Nigeria Customs Service     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Mohammed Danjuma     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Yusuf Aiyedun     John Mayokun Dada     Yekeen Alabi     Moronfoye     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Sunday Fagbemi     Bola Shagaya     SGBN     Christopher Ayeni     Tunji Olawuyi     Bio Ibrahim     Oke-Ode     Yomi Ogunsola     Makama     Baboko     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Bankole Omisore     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Riskat Opakunle     Ola Falade     Okeose Christian Cementary     Bolakale Saka     Ladi Hassan     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     Femi Oladiji     Kassim Babamale     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Muhammed Abdullahi     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     National Broadcasting Commission     Adamu Atta     Gbemisola Saraki     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Abdullahi Samari     Issa Manzuma     Third Estate     A.E. Afolabi     Summit University     Babajide Ajayi     Raji AbdulRasaq     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Afolasade Opeyemi Kemi