Osun’s Promptness in Payment Of Salary Lifts Burden Off Our Reps By Rotimi Makinde

Indeed, its the moral obligation and the  responsibility of any employer of labour to ensure wages or salaries of those they engage are paid. Financially, any healthy organisation or state would likely ensure regular payment of salary and wages. In this context, prompt payment is an act of  discipline which requires plenty of determination and sacrifices in a situation where the directing mind is working within limited resources.

I do not need to emphasize the fact that Osun State is not working in an isolated financial economy. States that are richer and buoyant than Osun State which includes the federal government  are today groaning and finding it hard to survive as the economy generally is not in good condition at all. What I think deserves mentioning is the ability of the major  players to manage the resources. This is where I honestly give kudos to Dr Adegboyega Oyetola, the governor of Osun State. As an accountant, I am conversant with the fact that resources management requires 

some  fundamental steps to help us towards the  administration of our available money and in the right way. Top of this is self discipline and these also includes though not limited to budget making, understanding expenses, being conversant  about income, both internal and external generated income, consolidation of debt, slash or total removal of unnecessary expenses.

The beauty of all these is the fact that if otherwise a  failure to pay salary in a state such as Osun State that mostly depends on salary or fund from federation account on the part of a man like Alh Gboyega Oyetola , that would have spelled doom for the general populace and by extension, the privileged representatives in government which includes the Senators ,Reps, assembly members, council chairs and counsellors. The heat would have been more on those representatives from  opposition camp whose teeming followers live on like leeches . Today, we are happy to  witness series of direct, indirect, regular and irregular  empowerment with each of our representatives  trying to outsmart  each other in the game of service .

The reverse would have been the case in Osun State for demands and associated hunger would have taken its heavy toll on the people and the few NGOs available , Churches, Mosques and above all the few  oppositions in power would have no choice but to channel their meagre resources which is not known to many  to food and welfarism  instead of all these largesse which many are today celebrating.