FOR the second time in multi month, retirees under the aegis of 2011/2012 Pensioners Forum in Osun State, on Wednesday morning, set out on a serene dissent to censure what they named "insidious and cruel mentality" of Governor Rauf Aregbesola over think refusal to pay their multi year annuity back payments.
As right on time as 8.00am, the retired people numbering more than 1,000 joined on the facing of the Osun State Secretariat mind boggling, assuming control over the circuitous before the fundamental entryway of the secretariat, consequently counteracting government employees and other best government functionaries from entering their workplaces.
Droning hostile to government melodies and showing notices, with different engravings, they pledged to make Osun ungovernable should Aregbesola neglected to pay their remarkable benefits remittance from second tranche of Paris advance discount, which was discharged to the state government on Monday.
Talking with columnists amid the challenge, which stopped vehicular development from the Owode end of Gbongan-Ibadan freeway, the administrator of 2011/2012 gathering of retired people in Osun State, Comrade Omoniyi Ilesanmi, said "we are the general population who worked industriously after the formation of Osun State. Aregbesola should utilize the N6.3billion Paris advance discount he just got the chance to pay us our annuity stipend; else he would discover this state ungovernable."
Citing from Nigeria's 1999 Constitution, Section 210, which he asserted states that "anyone in general society benefit, either neighborhood, state or government, is qualified for his or her advantage in type of annuity and tip after retirement," he battled that "Aregbesola had bombed in all consequences.
Ilesanmi proceeded with: "He has been paying us half benefits recompense month to month since July 2015, which is in opposition to the Constitution of Nigeria 1999 as altered. On the off chance that you go to the market, costs all products have gone up. The full benefits stipend isn't sufficiently even not to discuss half annuity since July, 2015. At this moment, he owes us unpaid multi year annuity stipend."
"We have to proceed with this unsettling. More than 2,000 of our individuals have kicked the bucket. Day before yesterday, we lost another beneficiary in Ede and around 800 retirees are laid up, while some are hitched to their wheelchairs. This is sheer underhandedness. Where was Aregbesola when this state was made? We worked to guarantee its survival and improvement just to be dealt with like this," he bemoaned.
Be that as it may, responding to the dissent, the chief, Bureau of Communication and Strategy to Aregbesola, Mr Semiu Okanlawon, said "it is intriguing to take note of that about multi month back, this same arrangement of retired people blamed Governor Rauf Aregbesola for gathering and occupying the second tranche of Paris credit discount, which they asserted had been discharged to Osun State by the Federal Government."
"As they have turned out today, the elderly natives ought to apologize to Aregbesola, as well as to the great individuals of Osun State for misguiding, confounding and making pressure in the state through their false claim that the senator had gotten the second tranche of Paris credit discount about multi month prior.
"Like I have stated, Osun State government, with its responsibility to straightforwardness under the administration of Governor Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration yesterday (Tuesday) to affirm the receipt of N6.314billion as the second tranche of Paris advance discount from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
"The cash was paid into the record of the state government on Monday and we properly made the declaration yesterday, educating general society that Osun has the second tranche of Paris credit discount.
"In accordance with our administration's guarantee to use the assets of this state to the greatest advantage of our kin, we therefore repeat our duty to this guarantee as we start right away straightforward arrangement on our duties to the concerned partners," he avowed.
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