By Abiodun Alade, @biodunpen
The
Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, Reno
Omokri, has berated the governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola for
allegedly budgeting a whopping 18.6 billion for the running of his
office while workers in the state are yet to be paid salary since
October 2014.
It will be recalled that in January, during the
budget defense at the State House of Assembly, Mr Gboyega Oyetola, the
Chief of Staff to Governor Aregbesola, disclosed that the budget for the
Governor’s Office for 2015 is N18,645,514,610.
According
to Oyetola, N1,159,000,000 is expected to be expended on salaries,
allowances and other remuneration of career officers and political
office holders in the Office of the Governor.
The sum of
N3,775,000,000 is expected to be spent on general administration of
bureaus and agencies in the Office of the Governor, as part of overhead
costs.
The payment of salaries to the Governor, the Deputy
Governor, Judges, the State Independent Electoral Commission and others
would gulp N2billion.
Aregbesola had earlier presented a budget of N197,080,191,560.00 tagged “Budget of Renewed Hope” to the House of Assembly.
On
Tuesday, civil servants in Osun State staged a protest against the
alleged non-payment of five months salaries by the state government.
The
workers, led by the Chairman of the Trade Union Congress in the state,
Mr. Olatunji Akinyemi, marched through the Osogbo/Gbongan road, chanting
anti-government songs.
The
workers said that apart from the failure of the Governor Rauf
Aregbesola -led administration to pay them the outstanding salaries, the
same government had refused to remit pension deducted from their
previous salaries to their various retirement savings accounts.
They
claimed that the governor was busy spending the state’s resources on
campaigns of the All Progressives Congress and left workers to suffer
untold hardship
Omokri, took to his Twitter page, on Wednesday,
to question the manner of change been promoted by the All Progressives
Congress, APC, if one of its governors cannot pay workers’ salaries,
describing it as a foretaste of the change APC promises
“Imagine
the reaction if a PDP Gov budgets 18.6 Billion for his office yet cant
to pay workers #whatmannerofchange? ” he posted on his twitter page.
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