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Your suffering’ll continue, Aregbesola tells Osun workers
The plight of Osun workers who have not received salaries for about seven months is not about to end soon as the state’s Governor Rauf Aregbesola says that the situation is beyond his control.
Aregbesola who spoke with State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Defence House in Abuja, described the situation in which he found himself was a quagmire.
Aregbesola said, “It is heart-rending that I am in this quagmire.
“But no matter how sad (I don’t want to use the word ‘depressed’), no matter how unhappy I am, the truth is that I will not fail to say that it is a situation absolutely beyond my control.
“I led an administration in receipt of regular allocation in which I do my budget.
“Unfortunately, this allocation started falling in rapid form that totally disorganised my budget and any other arrangement.”
According to him, “No head of the family will be happy that he cannot feed members of the family”.
Aregbesola said those who want to be objective would readily admit that the Osun State of November 2010 when he assumed office and Osun of today are not the same.
Also in apparent hopelessness, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has appealed to wealthy Nigerians like Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Femi Otedola and others to come to the aid of Osun workers by donating food items to them because of the hardship they are going through.
NLC chairman in the state, Mr. Jacob Adekomi, who made the appeal in Osogbo on Friday, said that the situation had become very bad among the workers because of the non-payment of the salaries for the past seven months.
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