Kwara State Government has announced that salary arrears for the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) teachers and local government workers have been paid.
This was made known in a statement signed by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Babatunde Toyin Abdulrasheed, and shared on the official X handle of the Kwara State Government on Thursday, February 29.
According to the state government, the administration has spent at least N5.5bn to offset salary arrears between January 2020 and January 2024.
The statement partly reads: “Kwara State Government has finally cleared all the salary arrears for SUBEB teachers and local government workers as inherited from the administration of former Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed.
“Figures from the last allocation meeting of the local government showed that the government committed N1,297,389,165.83 to clear the balance of the arrears owed to the SUBEB teachers.
“Another N1,622,673,992.12 was apportioned to clear the balance of the arrears for the local government workers in the past administration, according to the data from the allocation meeting.
“Between January 2020 and January 2024, the administration has spent at least N5.5bn to offset the arrears of salary for SUBEB teachers, local government workers and local government pensioners alone — apart from meeting its multibillion naira monthly obligations to these categories of workers and many others since it was elected in 2019.
“The government meanwhile has approved cash-backing for the implementation of 2022 promotion for teaching and non-teaching staff of the SUBEB, a decision that is part of the government’s efforts to boost the purchasing powers of workers at this time.”
Source: X | followKWSG
