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I read this afternoon with dismay how a political appointee, a commissioner for that matter responded to the most complicated issue in Kogi state today, the issue of salaries.
In a report compiled by Kogi reports, Mr Idris Asiru the commissioner for finance clearly belittled the unpaid workers with his unpolished responses. “Salary issue is minor. What has solution is minor”.
This is absurd, yes it might be only in Kogi state where screening that has ended months ago, and government came out to say that even those found wanting has been forgiven, has not produced a result that can lead to payments of hard earned salaries that cannot even take people home anymore.
By this statement “Salary is minor” the commissioner has vindicate a lot if us who believed that those at the helm of affairs in Kogi state today are mere opportunists, centralist, who are there to do their gold digging job.
For more than a year now, they are a lot of people whose livelihood revolved around their salaries. They have been broken down to pieces, their children in hunger, out of school and miserable. The workers themselves are now living with heavy psychological trauma of not living up to expectations of their families. Even at that, that is for the lucky ones who are alive. I could go on and on and on, it’s lugubrious, a very abysmal comment to come out of a government.
Recently, I stated in one of my write ups that this government is showing the people how insensitive it is to people’s sensitivity. I think Mr commissioner has vindicated me in his reckless statement.
Another issue I want the government and the governor to look into, is the continuing struggles to convince Nigerians that all is well in Kogi state. I listened to His Excellency, the Governor on a live television that people are being owed only two months salaries, the same statement Mr commissioner has lamented. However, contradicting statements have came out from other government dictionaries in the recent past. Like the statement made by HoS disclaiming that Mr Edward who committed suicide was not being own ten month but eight months, I have also listened to Edward Onoja’s phone interview on Channels television that people were not being owed twenty or eighteen months as speculated but that the highest was twelve months. So, you can see government within it self is fighting the war of keeping its house in order. So this is no longer a small, minor or simple thing as stated by the commissioner.
I have advised this government in another write up via the same source that even if government is bent on lying, the lies must be properly and coherently told.
How can people within the same government bring up so many different and what is believed to be fallacious claim. It’s a pity.
Let me call on Gov. Bello, that most of the people serving under you today, calling you white lion, digital and all sorts of funny names are political jobbers, they are green snakes bent on discharging their venom and hiding under your government to make money.
All is not well in the state and with the state.
Salary of civil servant is not minor. It’s a big issue because those civil servant have no other sources of livelihood like politicians.
With all sense of modesty, I call on Idris Asiru to tender an apology to the unpaid workers and the entire Kogi people.
Salary is a right. Do not let people beg for it.
– Salihu Adam Jiddah
Kogi Liberation Movement
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