By Femi Adesola
The Governorship Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Alhaji Fatai Akinbade, has decribed the payment of half salary to Osun state workers as an act of wickedness.
Akinbade who was the former Secretary to the Osun state Government made this disclosure while featuring on a Yoruba political program (Oro Oselu), hosted on Rave 91.7FM.
He berated the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola’s administration for paying half salary, which he described as act of wickedness.
The former SSG disclosed he had experience in Osun state governance and stressed he had first hand account of happenings in Government.
He noted during their regime, salaries and pension were paid before month ends as and when due, and given utmost priority, because the state’s economy lies with the civil servant.
In his word he said “Fund allocation committee which consist of 11 members from the executive including the Account General of the state was inaugurated to determine how to spend the states income, our economy starts from the civil servants, if civil servants receive salaries, carpenters, mechanic, bricklayers, market women will be engaged, it will trickle down to the downtrodden,”
“Payments of half salaries is wickedness, because the full one is even never enough for spending not to talk of rationing it.” Akinbade added.
Lastly, the governorship hopeful said “I will do better than Aregbesola if elected, you can’t give what you don’t have, Aregbesola cannot do more than he knows, he has done his best, and his best is the starting point of what I can achieve. I can’t be there and do this little and be bragging about it. This is not the best we can get.”
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