Ex-LG office holders hail Ogun as state clears ₦3.5bn severance

Former governmental office-holders successful Ogun State’s 20 section authorities councils and Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) person hailed the authorities authorities for clearing ₦3.503 cardinal successful outstanding severance allowances owed them.

The beneficiaries spoke connected Tuesday during the presumption of cheques astatine the Oba’s Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, describing the outgo arsenic a objection of the government’s committedness to bully governance and the payment of governmental office-holders.

The beneficiaries, who served betwixt 2016 and 2024, see erstwhile chairmen, vice-chairmen, secretaries to section governments, supervisors, peculiar advisers and councillors.

In a connection signed by the Special Adviser connected Media and Strategy to Governor Dapo Abiodun, Hon. Kayode Akinmade, the authorities said the outgo totalled ₦3,503,489,479.56.

Akinmade said the outstanding liabilities covered 526 erstwhile governmental office-holders from the 2016–2019 tenure and 516 from the 2020–2024 tenure.

He said the colony reflected the administration’s argumentation of ensuring that morganatic inherited liabilities were not near unpaid.

“As a liable and people-centred government, we person taken the bold ste...