PDP pleads with NEMA to donate food to Osun workers

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irstclass newsline learnt that the Peoples Democratic Party has
called on the National Emergency Management Authority to donate relief
materials, especially food, to workers in Osun State because of the
non-payment of their salaries for the past seven months.
The Director of Media and Strategy of the PDP in Osun State, Mr. Diran
Odeyemi, made the appeal in a statement in Osogbo, the state capital,
on Thursday.
The party praised the Christian Association of Nigeria for rallying
support for the workers but that the mobilisation of aid for the state
workers could not be left for CAN alone to bear.
The PDP also directed its members to begin to bring foodstuff to the
party's secretariats in all the local government areas in the state
for onward distribution to the workers.
It said, "The situation in the state requires much more than what
religious bodies can cope with. We are calling on the National
Emergency Management Authority, Red Cross Society and well- meaning
Nigerians to come to the aid of the workers in the state.
"The situation of unpaid salaries is so bad that many of those in the
employment of government have now resulted to begging to feed their
family while many have attempted to hang themselves.
"On Wednesday, a man slumped and died in broad daylight at the popular
Olaiya Junction, Osogbo, after begging for money to buy drug, albeit
unsuccessfully from the traders around and the passersby.
"The man openly shouted that his relatives that usually give him money
to buy drugs have not been paid salaries for months. The sad aspect of
the story is that the corpse was left at the spot where he foamed and
bled through the mouth for a day before his remains was evacuated.
"We also have it on good authority that many of these helpless workers
have been evicted from their rented apartment while many others are
said to be considering suicide.
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