Yesterday evening, Sen. Ben Murray-Bruce offered to donate
his wardrobe allowance to Osun state workers who have not been paid their
salaries for months (read here). Well, the government of Osun state didn't
appreciate his 'kind' gesture and clapped back at him. They released a
statement saying he is mocking Nigerian workers. Find the statement signed by
the Director Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Office of the Osun state
Governor below...
My attention has been drawn to a tweet by a member of Upper
chamber of the National Assembly Senator Ben Murray Bruce of the PDP from
Bayelsa saying he will not reject the alleged hefty pay for members of the
National Assembly but collect it and donate to Osun workers.
It is saddening
and tragic that Mr. Murray Bruce whom many had accorded a lot of respect is too early in the day joining
the fray of politicisation and trivialising the salary issue affecting more
than half of the states of the federation in this ridiculous manner. While
Nigerians are in hot debate over the alleged jumbo pay and the mood of the
country Murray Bruce seems to have turned the plight of Nigerian workers to a
thing of an entertainment.
Of all the states in the federation who are battling
to pay salaries as a result of the precarious economic situation his party the
PDP threw Nigeria into why is it that it is Osun he wants to take his pay to?
This is certainly playing to the gallery and nothing but a
mockery in the faces of Nigerian workers and not only of Osun extraction. It is
not only wicked but ungodly to play politics with the suffering of the people.
If the Senator’s conscience tells him his pay is too high especially in the
face of the prevailing economic predicament of Nigeria the most honourable
thing to do is to lead a protest for reduction and not a self serving
philanthropy only in the direction of Osun workers.
Semiu Okanlawon, Director Bureau of Communication and
Strategy Office of the Governor Osogbo
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