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.
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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