- The pensioners staged a protest in Oshogbo, the capital of Oshun state, claiming that their colleagues are dying of hunger
- Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state confirmed receiving the second tranche of the Paris Club loan refund
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state has confirmed receiving N6.314 billion second tranche of the Paris Club loan refund.
He also used the opportunity to breakdown how his government spent the first tranche of N11.744 billion.
Aregbesola gave the breakdown in a graph just as protesting pensioners have held his government bound over unpaid arrears.
“Let me take this opportunity to remind you for how we disbursed the first tranche. We will make available details of the second tranche,” Governor Aregbesola said in the tweet sighted by NAIJ.com before giving the breakdown.
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The Punch also reports that the aggrieved retired workers under the umbrella of Forum of 2011/2012 Pensioners, asked the governor to use the second tranche to pay their emoluments.
The chairman of the forum, Mr Omoniyi Ilesanmi, pensioners were being owed one-year full pension arrears and gratuities from 2008 to 2012.
He said they had lost at least 2000 of their colleagues to hunger.
NAIJ.com learnt that, armed with placards, the pensioners blocked the road leading to the state civil service secretariat at Abere, Oshogbo restricting movement of workers.
The presence of policemen deployed to the scene did not scare them. They were however said to be peaceful.
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Ilesanmi vowed that they would continue to trouble the governor until he paid their entitlements.
NAIJ.com earlier reported how Governor Rauf Aregbesola is changing Osun state and making it the food basket of the nation.
Watch this video of how Aregbesola is changing the face of Osun state:
