The Deputy Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Mr. Lasun Yusuf, on Monday
shunned the summit organised to proffer
solutions to the financial crisis rocking Osun
State.
The Osun Legislators’ Forum, comprising of
lawmakers from Abuja and the House, convened
the summit with a view to solving the current
financial crisis in the state.
Although the Deputy Governor, Mrs. Titi Laoye-
Tomori, and Senator Isiaka Adeleke also were
not present at the summit, their absence did not
raise questions like Lasun’s.
The summit was attended by Governor Rauf
Aregbesola; former Governor Olagunsoye
Oyinlola; a former Chief of Defence Staff, Air
Marshal, Oluseyi Petinrin (retd.), monarchs and
other prominent leaders in the state.
Lasun’s absence further fuelled speculations that
the rift which his emergence as the deputy
speaker caused between him and Aregbesola
had not been settled.
Lasun, who represents Osogbo/ Olorunda/ Orolu
Federal Constituency, had defied the position of
the All Progressives Congress to contest the
position of the deputy speaker and he won.
The APC Elders’ Forum in Osun State asked him
to resign and advocated that he should be
sanctioned, but the lawmaker rejected their
calls.
One of the legislators, Alhaja Ayo Omidiran, had
announced on Saturday that the lawmakers
decided to come up with the idea in order to find
solutions to the economic crisis confronting the
state.
When asked why Lasun was not present at the
Saturday press conference, Omidiran said the
lawmaker was being expected to attend the
summit.
At the event, the Chairman of Nigeria Labour
Congress in Osun State, Mr. Jacob Adekomi,
faulted the claim of Governor Rauf Aregbesola
administration that the state monthly wage bill is
N3.6bn. He also said that the number of the
state’s workforce was not as huge as claimed by
the state government.
Adekomi said this in his presentation at a
stakeholders’ meeting, organised by the Osun
Legislators’ Forum in Osogbo to proffer solutions
to the problems confronting the state.
He said the union would not support any plan to
sack workers, saying they were ready to submit
themselves for staff audit to ascertain the actual
number of workers.
He said, “Retrenchment of workers is not a
solution to the problem of the state. We have
always support the government and we will
continue to support the government.
“Let the state government stop using consultants
to do what civil servants can do. If at all the
state government will use consultants it should
be minimal and their commission should not
exceed 10 per cent.
“Osun State wage bill is not up to N3.6bn that
the government is claiming. Workers are not up
to 35,000 which is the government’s figure. That
was why we agreed to submit ourselves for
screening to know how many we are. There are
some persons on the state government’s pay roll
who are not workers.”
The NLC chairman, who spoke in Yoruba, also
advised the Osun State Government to withdraw
from joint ownership of the Ladoke Akintola
University of Technology, Ogbomoso.
He said that the state should leave the university
for Oyo State and merge whatever assets got
from it with the Osun State University. According
to him, the state does not have the capacity to
finance more than one university at the moment.
“Let Osun stop the joint ownership of LAUTECH
with Oyo State. We should merge our part of the
school with UNIOSUN. This will save the
government the subventions spending on the
university,” he said.

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Ok

APC......Crises

Aregbesola, the Scammer in Omoluwabi's regalia.

cornoil:
Aregbesola, the Scammer in Omoluwabi's regalia.

Thank God the Apc lawmaker also realise there is fire on the mountain now in osun, but some apc internet warriors has been denying that.AREGBE don chop our money finish