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6/19/2015

Ben Bruce and Aregbesola in exchange of words over unpaid salaries

Firstclass newsline gathered that the Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf
Aregbesola, and the Senator representing Bayelsa-East senatorial
district, Mr. Ben Murray-Bruce clashed on Thursday over Aregbesola's
inability to pay workers' salaries.
The faceoff started after Murray-Bruce, who is a member of the Peoples
Democratic Party, said on his officialTwitterhandle that he would
donate his wardrobe allowance of over N500,000 to the unpaid workers
in Osun State and widows in his home state of Bayelsa.
Murray-Bruce, who is the Chairman of the Silverbird Group, said he
would give the money to the Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress in
Osun State who would distribute the money to the unpaid workers.
He wrote, "I, Ben Murray-Bruce, will not sit down idly while my fellow
citizens die because salaries have not been paid. As a first step, I
am immediately donating my wardrobe allowance to unpaid workers in
Osun State and widows in my constituency.
"We are starting in Osun but we will not end there. I will do as much
to help workers who have not been paid in other states. I call on all
my friends and followers onFacebookandTwitterto donate non-perishable
food items for these our brothers in need.
"As soon as my wardrobe allowance is paid, half will be publicly given
to the NLC chairman in Osun State while the other half will be given
to the head of widows association in my community of Akasa."
However, Aregbesola described Murray-Bruce's statement as the height
of hypocrisy.
The governor, in a statement by the Director. Bureau of Communication
and Strategy Office, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, said it was unfortunate that
the senator could trivialise such a sensitive issue.
He wondered why it was Osun State – out of the over 15 states that had
not paid salaries – that Murray-Bruce wanted to donate his money to.
The statement read, "My attention has been drawn to a tweet by a
member of upper chamber of the National Assembly, Senator Ben
Murray-Bruce, of the PDP from Bayelsa, saying he will not reject the
alleged hefty pay for members of the National Assembly but collect it
and donate to Osun workers.
"It is saddening and tragic that Mr. Murray-Bruce whom many had
accorded a lot of respect is too early in the day joining the fray of
politicisation and trivialising the salary issue affecting more than
half of the states of the federation in this ridiculous manner.
"While Nigerians are in hot debate over the alleged jumbo pay and the
mood of the country, Murray-Bruce seems to have turned the plight of
Nigerian workers to a thing of entertainment. Of all the states in the
federation who are battling to pay salaries as a result of the
precarious economic situation his party, the PDP, threw Nigeria, why
is it that it is Osun he wants to take his pay to?"
Firstclassnewsline.net

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