Councillors across 193 wards in 16 Local Governments of Kwara State have called for the payment of their eight month salary arrears, as their tenure will elapse in the next two weeks.
The Councillors appealed to the governor to intervene for the chairmen of the local government to offset their payment, but the State Chairman of Association of Local Government of Nigeria insisted the councils cannot pay due to the dwindling economy and will pass the debt to the incoming administrations.
In recent times, workers across the sixteen Local Governments of Kwara state embarked on an industrial action to press home their demand for the payment of their salary arrears, in which the state governor intervened to settle the matter.
The Councillors are insisting that they are being owed for six to eight months.
The State Chairman of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria which is the body of Local Government Chairmen, Abdul Lateef Okandeji admitted that truly the councilors are being owed, but blamed it on current economic situation in the country and lack of saving culture of the past chairmen.
He however promised that the debt being owed will be part of the handing over note, since their tenure will expire in two weeks for the incoming administrations at the councils to settle.
