Osun State Government has refuted claims that local council workers are going home without salaries due to the prolonged withholding of federal allocations.

The government insisted that core salaries had continued uninterrupted through state-level interventions.

In a statement via X yesterday, the state’s Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi, described recent public narratives suggesting non-payment of salaries as misleading and factually inaccurate.

“There has been no interruption in the payment of core salaries to local council workers. Salaries are being paid fully and as and when due.

“Despite the hijacking of local council allocations for almost a year, funds now totalling approximately N230 billion, the Osun State Government under Governor Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke has sustained salary payments through the state’s resources.

“This intervention has ensured financial stability for workers and shielded families from avoidable hardship,” Alimi stated.

However, he added, “The continued hijacking of the allocations had directly impacted the payment of certain allowances and supplementary entitlements ordinarily funded from those statutory allocations.

“These obligations are structurally tied to funds accruing to the local council system and cannot be fully accommodated in the absence of those resources.”

He said that the withheld allocations, originally intended for grassroots administration, development projects, operational costs, and worker-related benefits, had left local council finances significantly constrained.