Petrol Subsidy: PDP Accuses Kwara Govt Of Discontinuing Payment Of N10,000 ‘Monthly’ Cash Assistance To Kwara Workers

Kwara state PDP alleged on Sunday that  the Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq administration has discontinued payment of N10,000 monthly cash assistance  to civil servants in the state, submitting that the APC- led administration lacks integrity.

The state PDP in a statement  made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by its Publicity Secretary, Hon Olusegun Olusola Adewara , described such an act as ‘gross insensitivity to the plight of the workers who have gotten overstretched sequel to the current economic hardships occasioned by maladministration on the part of the APC-led Federal and state governments’.

The party urged Kwarans never to trust Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq , alleging that he had on multiple occasions deceived and pretended to care for the Mekunu’ but ended up inflicting more injuries and pains on the same ‘Mekunu’.

While noting that it was the suffering workers who had  first raised the alarm of plans to discontinue payment of the cash assistance  while a press release by the governor had assured workers that apart from the ‘palliatives’, other nonfinancial benefits would be made available to them within the first week of December.

‘The party reminds the government that the first week of December had terminated since Friday, the 8th Day of December and no worker has received any palliative let alone other benefits yet’ the statement said.

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‘We knew from the onset that Governor Abdulrahman and his party have no programme that could lift Kwara people out of poverty, let alone any programme that could motivate and engineer our workers to do better.

This is a governor who deceived the workers and the general public that he would increase workers’ salaries and ensure that  Kwara state civil servants earn more than  those in neigbouring states like Osun, Oyo, Ekiti, and Kogi, during their Otoge crusade in 2019, after assuming office, the governor has always claimed that  he carries workers along in respect of  issues relating to the state finances and run his government on ‘MEKUNU’, (poor man) agenda yet, he has not been able to implement a full minimum wage for Kwara workers up till date despite fat undisclosed monthly allocations coming to the state since 2019.

Kwarans would also not forget that more than N10 billion  was left in the government coffers and handed over to Abdulrahman in May 2019 by the PDP, this was confirmed by the then EFCC zonal director who announced to the world that the agency prevented  the Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed administration  from using N10 billion that was received in the twilight of his tenure. 

This N10 billion which was a proceed of FAAC and Tax refund from FG was to be used to offset  salary arrears of LG workers, pensioners , and other obligations but was illegally frozen and handed over to Abdulrahman. How the N10 billion vanished from the  government coffers without settling salaries arrears and gratuities remains inexplicable by the AA government.

Our party can only sympathize with Kwara workers, pensioners, market women, and school children who are now paying huge taxes and urge them to keep praying for divine intervention to deliver them from Abdulrahman’s heavy yoke’ the party added.

Kwara state PDP has also asked the current administration in the state to disclose what has been received as allocation and grants from January  to November 2023 –Team@orientactualmags.com
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