The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the state Governor Ademola Adeleke of being behind the inability to pay salaries of local government workers due because he hid vital documents.
The APC in a statement by Mogaji Kola Olabisi on Saturday cautioned the Governor to stop playing ostrich on the issue of the federal allocations for the local government council areas in the state by spreading false narratives to score unmerited political sympathy in the court of the public.
It would be recalled that Governor Adeleke, on Thursday in Osogbo while holding a meeting with some of the stakeholders on his stalled white elephant projects in the state, accused the APC of hijacking the federal allocations meant for the local government council areas, ascribing the falsehood for the reason why his government could not perform optimally in the state.
It is absolutely wrong and demeaning for the chief executive of a state to employ the use of lies and subterfuge to run his administration as such option of governance does more damage to the government because the governed he is feeding with falsehoods are not robots incapable of reasoning to decipher the truth.
How on earth could Governor Adeleke be imbued with such attribute of misinformation on the issue of the federal allocations for the Osun State local government council areas which have been steadily collected on monthly basis by the Court of Appeal-reinstated local government council chairmen who have been developing their respective constituencies with same?
It is on record that apart from the massive grading of roads by these honourable local government councils, they recently distributed three hundred motorcycles to the police and other formal and informal security services in the state while it is also a statement of fact that each of the local government council chairmen distributed fifty thousand Naira to one thousand five hundred people for diverse people as a welfare support in their respective constituencies.
Equally, the security vehicles distributed by these honourable chairmen are on the way to boost security in the state which has been utterly neglected by the incumbent administration since its inception close to four years ago.
Therefore, it was wrong for Governor Adeleke to have accused the reinstated APC local government chairmen for any issue the embattled governor may be having with the primary school teachers, primary health workers and all other government workers which salaries are embedded in the local government federal allocations.
We expected the rattled and visibly confused Governor Adeleke to be bold enough to have told the truth about the delay in the payment of the salaries and other allowances of the statutory grassroots workers who are drawing their salaries from the local government councils.
The governor’s false statement would have been laced with honour if he had disclosed to the innocent and discerning minds in the state and beyond that he is the one responsible for the non-payment of the salaries and allowances of the said primary school teachers, health workers and others by his blatant refusal to release the electronic salary vouchers of the local government staff and primary school teachers, the actuarial valuation registers for the pensioners, vouchers of this valuation properly audited; data showing compilation of leave bonuses; data showing compilation of co-operative investment deductions and data showing compilation of check-off dues to trade unions properly audited, despite several appeals to the governor by the reinstated local government council chairmen.
The actuarial register contains the quantum of money due to each worker as the value of past services rendered to the government and this is what is called Bond which the reinstated council executives are ready to back up with funds and be released to the Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) to facilitate payment of money for the retirees in the various local government council areas.
These pensioners must know now that there are enough funds to take care of their Bond Certificates if only they could plead with the governor to allow them to be free.
The electronic audited salary vouchers are the documents stating the amount of money to be paid and the processes passed through to get the money paid legally while the leave bonuses are the monies paid to each worker as allowances when he or she is on leave.
Check-off dues however, are the monies deducted as the union dues from the salaries of the workers.
We are, through this explanation, drawing Governor Adeleke to the court of the public for the people to give their impartial judgement on who is the enemy of the affected workers whose salaries are embedded in the federal allocations for the local government council areas.
Governor Adeleke should stop henceforth his spreading of falsehoods on the payment of the federal allocations for the local government councils as he has been the reason the salaries are not being paid because of his option to play a dirty politics with it.
We assure the affected workers that their entitlements would be promptly settled by the reinstated local government council chairmen immediately the highly vindictive Governor Adeleke relaxes his hold on the vital documents for the payment of the salaries and allowances.
It was when the Adeleke attempt to play a dirty politics with the salaries of our revered traditional rulers in the state failed that he switched over to the primary school teachers, primary health workers and others.
The kernel of our statement is that Governor Adeleke has been the one preventing the payment of the salaries and allowances of the grassroots workers in the state and he should be held responsible for playing a dirty politics with the means of their likelihood.
We wonder why the governor is now castigating the reinstated APC local government council areas’ chairmen over the non-payment of the salaries and allowances of the council workers when it is obvious that he is behind the lingering official anomaly in the government.
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