Some concerned members of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Priesthood Parish, Onigari GRA, Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, have donated food items to needy civil servants in the state to save them from hunger.
The gesture, which was spearheaded by workers of Federal agencies and Ekiti State University (EKSU), was carried out at yesterday’s service.
It was designed to give the recipients some relief over their unpaid six months salaries.
Food items distributed include rice, Semovita and vegetable oil, which the church’s Assistant Pastor, Anthony Olowonihi, said was carried out to identify with Ekiti civil servants “at this critical period”.
The President of the Men’s Fellowship, Oluwatoba Rotimi, appreciated the gesture, calling on other churches to emulate it.
The pastor in charge, Mrs. Bolaji Aribisala, said members should be their brothers’ keepers and should allow the brotherly love to continue.
The Ekiti All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Frontier yesterday described the hardship being faced by workers as “heart-rending”.
It called on Governor Ayo Fayose to find means to pay their salaries.
In a statement by its Coordinator, Dapo Ipoola, the APC Youth Frontier described the failure of the state government to pay the workers as “outrageously callous because the governor is taking his own entitlements such as N250 million security vote as a well as N250 million running grant – totalling half a billion naira monthly.
The youth said the governor’s claim that the debt left behind by the immediate past administration can no longer be believed as that government also experienced paucity of funds, but managed the available resources well.
Ipoola criticised Fayose’s inconsistencies with debt figures being quoted but expressed satisfaction that the Debt Management Office has clarified the actual debt profile of Ekiti far less than figures reeled out by the governor.
He said: “If not sheer wickedness, the governor left the salaries of workers unattended to and concerns himself with building a flyover bridge; of what socio-economic importance is that project compared to the cascade of administrative tepidity and torpidity on ground?
“Why is the governor not coming out clean on the IGR of Ekiti? What has happened to the exorbitant tax fees mindlessly imposed? If the governor said he had discovered 500 ghost workers and the labour force is not being reinforced, what has happened to their salaries?
“We implore the governor to do the needful or sleep away with the unpredictable attendant consequences of this which shall be civil and he should learn how to make lemonade out of lemon.”
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and their governor has billions of naira, its well ooooooo
ReplyDeleteand also enough money to organize his area boys to stage counter demonstrations to earn false popularity.
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