By Demola Akinyemi

ILORIN—The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, has appealed to Kwara State government to use the N75 billion recently released to the state, being excess deduction from the state’s federation account for Paris loan debt, to offset the nine months salaries owed its members.

Rising from its state executive meeting in Ilorin, NASU, in a communique by the state Chairman, Issa Mohammed, and Secretary, Owoeye Olusina, said: “Ensuring payment of our salaries, we believe, will go a long way to save souls of our teeming members in the state from sudden and untimely death due to their inability to attend to their health issues and buy drugs for those with life-threatening sicknesses.

“We are hopeful that the release of N75 billion to Kwara State from the federation account, being over deduction from Kwara State allocation for Paris debts, should be used to pay our salaries, because we believe that this development will bring succour to our members who have been waiting patiently for relief package as promised by the government.

“At present, Kwara State government is owing the workers of College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies, Ilorin, nine months; College of Education, Ilorin, eight months; College of Education, Oro, 13 months; College of Education (Technical) Lafiagi, four months; and staff of State Universal Education Board, SUBEB, seven months.”

It would be recalled that the Federal Government said it released some funds to 36 states of the federation, being deductions from their past federal allocations.