The Governor of Ondo State Rotimi Akeredolu yesterday explained why his administration resorted to borrowing to pay salaries of workers in the state.
At a meeting with striking doctors in Akure, Akeredolu said: “The most painful is that we now borrow money to pay salaries, because it got to that point where we cannot allow our workers to be seen as suffering, due to no fault of ours.
“If it is to bend backwards to keep our workers afloat, we shall not hesitate, and that is why we are reviewing our earlier stand that we would not borrow to pay salaries.
“The danger, however, remains that we are eating our future, as more goes into the recurrent than the capital as it were.”
The governor also directed payment of the salaries to striking doctors in the state.
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