The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola at the
weekend dismissed reports that he received 96- month salary arrears in secret
when he served as the governor of Osun state.
He described the report as a fiction written by elements
bent on casting “aspersion on the integrity of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola”
A statement from Aregbesola’s media aide, Sola Fasure, noted
that the report carried by an online medium falls short of all known ethics of
journalism.
According to the statement, the author of the report “falsely claims that the Minister of Interior and immediate past governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, towards the end of his tenure, secretly received the backlog of his full salary for the entire period he was governor, contrary to his asserting that he never did.
“The report is entirely a piece of fiction, a good exemplar
of fake news and disreputable journalism.”
The media aide said: “Let me state categorically again, that
Ogbeni Aregbesola did not receive any salary in the entire duration of his
eight-year stint as governor in Osun.
“His reason being that the state government provided
accommodation, security, transportation, food and other conveniences for him
and would not need to pay for these from his pocket.
“He also explained that all his children are grown up and
have graduated and he would not need to pay school fees again. He therefore
donated his salaries to the state government.
“The author of the report claims to have got the information
from some anonymous government officials. He provides no evidence.
“The report fails basic journalistic ethical requirement
that only truth and verifiable fact should be reported as news. Reading through
it, one is not in doubt that the evil intention behind the piece was to smear
and cast aspersion on the integrity of Ogbeni Aregbesola.”
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