Hungry Osun kings, chiefs beg Adeleke to pay seven months’ salaries

Seventeen traditional rulers and 440 chiefs in Osun’s Odo-Otin council area have gone seven months without salaries, prompting the Oloyan of Oyan to appeal to Governor Ademola Adeleke.

Seventeen traditional rulers and 440 chiefs in the Odo-Otin council area of Osun State have gone seven months without salaries, Peoples Gazette reports. The development has prompted the Oloyan of Oyan to appeal to Governor Ademola Adeleke for intervention.

The monarch made the appeal in a video circulating on social media, lamenting the financial hardships allegedly facing the traditional rulers and chiefs over the non-payment of their salaries.

“Governor Ademola Adeleke, we the kings are hungry. You are starving us, the kings and also the chiefs. Pay us our salaries; you have not paid us for seven months,” he said.

The complaint came amid the prolonged dispute over control of local government councils and the release of statutory allocations in Osun, which has affected the councils’ finances.