Wardrobe Allowance: Ben Bruce mocking Nigerian workers — Osun govt

The Osun state government has described as ‘mockery’ the gesture of
Senator Ben Murray Bruce to donate his wardrobe allowance to the
public workers in the state who have not been paid their salaries for
more than seven months.

Semiu Okanlawon , the Director Bureau of Communication and
Strategy, office of the governor, Rauf Aregbesola in his reaction to the
gesture, questioned the choice of the All Progressives Congress, APC-
ruled state by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP senator.
Read his reactions 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 Peoples
Democratic Party 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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