Excitement As Adeleke Pays Osun Job Centre Workers

Workers of Osun Job Centre whose salaries had been withheld for over a year ago have been paid.

OSUN DEFENDER gathered that the workers were paid on Monday, following the approval of their file by Governor Ademola Adeleke.

Some of the workers who spoke with the medium confirmed the payment, commending Adeleke for being sensitive to their plight.

The salaries of the workers had been withheld since 2023, while their office located opposite Ayegbaju Market, Osogbo, was also shut. The workers were not paid between January 2023 and April 2024.

But joy came their way this week when individual of them received credit alert of salary payment arrears of some months they were owed.

Speaking with OSUN DEFENDER, one of the workers, Mr Joshua Adebare, commended Adeleke, saying he had lost hope that the salaries would be paid.

Adebare said: “Governor Adeleke surprised us; he acted as a true compassionate person on our case. He is indeed sensitive to the plight of the people.”

However, Adebare pleaded with Adeleke to reopen the job centre and make it function again.

He said: “We urged Governor Adeleke to make the Osun Job centre active again, for it to serve it purpose and for job security for us as well. We have all been jobless since the centre was inactive.

“Osun Job Centre is an asset that the state government should protect. We have been facilitating recruitment of Osun indigenes and residents into private sectors and helping the private employers to recruit suitable candidates from among unemployed youth in the state.

“The agency was also conducting ICT, employability and entrepreneurial training for indigenes and residents of the state to make them suitable for available opportunities. We also engaged in career counseling, review of Curriculum Vitae (CV), interview preparation and career coaching to indigenes and residents of the state.

“We have helped thousands of people to get job. This asset should not be thrown away just like that. Governor Adeleke should revive the centre and make it functional, by that we can also resume to our place of work.

“Reviving the centre will surely boost the image of government in consonance with Governor Adeleke’s agenda for skilled and unskilled youths.”