A gubernatorial hopeful in Osun State on the platform of Labour Party, Engr Fatai Akinbade has accused the Rauf Aregbesola administration of being insensitive to the plight of workers and retirees in the state.
Akinbade, in a statement by his Director Media,Mr Kayode Oladeji, lamented that Aregbesola only takes delight in putting the state and its people in the dungeon through the acquisition of questionable loans running into several billions of Naira
“It is disheartening that even these loans they take are not attached to the needs of the people. They are just being spent frivolously while the people are wallowing in abject poverty and the future of state is being mortgaged.”
He opined that it is crime against God and humanity not to pay workers and retirees their entitlements as and when due.
“These people are no beggars. Having served the state meritoriously,they deserved to be paid their entitlements. It is their rights because they had worked for it. A situation whereby workers do not receive their salaries on time and retirees are owed for months,calls for concern.”
The former Secretary to the State Government challenged the administration to explain to the public why it has mandated banks to be deducting 10 percent out of the pension of the retirees whenever the government chooses to pay them.
In the interim,Akinbade while commending the workers and the retirees for their resilience in their present state of hardship,implored them to be calm and be law abiding,assuring that their days of anguish would soon be a thing of the past when Aregbesola is voted out.