Apologize To Retirees For Failing To Fulfill Your ‘Campaign Promise’, Osun APC Tells Gov Adeleke

 Osun state APC has asked Governor Ademola Adeleke to tender an unreserved apology to retirees in the state for allegedly failing to fulfill the promise made to them while seeking to become chief executive of the State of the Living Spring.

   He had according to APC disappointed the pensioners having promised to clear the backlog of their contributory pensions in his first six months in office.

The state  APC chairman , Sooko Tajudeen Lawal in a statement issued in Osogbo and made available to Team@orientactualmags.com  by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, said ‘it will now dawn on the state pensioners and the civil servants that the Adeleke-led government is fraught with deceit in the execution of its campaign promises’.

‘It will be recalled that a statement issued by the state Head of Service, Mr. S.A. Aina yesterday stated that the Adeleke administration has approved the release of bond certificates worth N2.1bn for the payment of accrued right benefits of another batch of retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme at the state and local government levels today.

The statement went further to state that: ‘The beneficiaries of this kind gesture of the governor are retired staff of local governments, local council developments, area councils, ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), secondary schools, tertiary institutions and parastatals’ APC noted while adding that  ‘the information about the mere approval for the payment of the N2.1bn CPS bond for the retirees showed that the Adeleke administration is lacking in sincerity of purpose as the so-called pension bond would be the second time of such in about nine months in the life of the PDP administration in the state’.

APC has also alleged that the process has been shrouded in secrecy while asking the government to provide detailed information in respect of the beneficiaries , the outstanding payment and  the number of retirees that have not been attended to.

‘If we calculate N500m for the state alone in nine months for the Contributory Pension Scheme, it amounts to N4.5bn for the state alone. If we calculate same for the local governments, it is N4.5bn, making the total that the Adeleke administration is due for, at the minimum, to be N9bn.

If Adeleke pays N500m continuously in 48 months of his tenure, he can only pay N24bn at the end of his tenure which is a far cry from the outstanding liabilities at the state and the local government levels.

For nine months now, Adeleke has only paid less than N4bn plus the local government liabilities of the pension. If we divide 48 months by four times, he would only  pay N12bn in four years of his tenure.

The immediate past Governor Gboyega Oyetola paid the Contributory Pension Scheme of the civil servants, parastatals and secondary school retirees on the CPS from 2016 to April 2018 and paid in full all the retirees on the CPS whose bonds were between N100 ,000 and N2m in full till December 2020. In all, despite poor state of finances, the Oyetola administration paid over N40 billion to settle pensions and N97 billion from the state indebtedness.

Why is it difficult or impossible for Governor Adeleke to make the names of the beneficiaries of the questionable pension bonds available as it was the practice during the previous administration if truly, he has nothing to hide?

The retired primary school teachers CPS pensioners are still in 2016. Adeleke should tell the whole world which one he is paying if he has nothing to hide?

Now that the local government councils are buoyant, why is Adeleke wasting their funds on phantom contracts instead of releasing chunk funds to these hapless retirees to save their lives and jump-start the economy of the state by releasing their bond certificates as he promised to do within six months in his campaign promise?

Governor Adeleke should tell the public how many retirees would be paid and provide their names? How many school teachers would benefit and provide their identities?

What is the meaning of this ‘talk-and-do’ in the face of these malfeasance and man inhumanity to man? What Adeleke is doing to these retirees is a crying scandal.

Which month is Adeleke paying in the civil service, the parastatals, the secondary school teachers or is he paying only the retirees from Ede?

Is Governor Adeleke following the register of the pensioners; is it that there is no favouritism in the process that his government is known for? The government should tell the people of the state what has happened to its share of the subsidy palliative funds’   the statement added-Team@orientactualmags.com
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