By Abiodun Alade, @biodunpen

The Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, Reno Omokri, has berated the governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola for allegedly budgeting a whopping 18.6 billion for the running of his office while workers in the state are yet to be paid salary since October 2014.

It will be recalled that in January, during the budget defense at the State House of Assembly, Mr Gboyega Oyetola, the Chief of Staff to Governor Aregbesola, disclosed that the budget for the Governor’s Office for 2015 is N18,645,514,610.

reno-omokriAccording to Oyetola, N1,159,000,000 is expected to be expended on salaries, allowances and other remuneration of career officers and political office holders in the Office of the Governor.

The sum of N3,775,000,000 is expected to be spent on general administration of bureaus and agencies in the Office of the Governor, as part of overhead costs.

The payment of salaries to the Governor, the Deputy Governor, Judges, the State Independent Electoral Commission and others would gulp N2billion.

On Tuesday, civil servants in Osun State staged a protest against the alleged non-payment of five months salaries by the state government.

The workers, led by the Chairman of the Trade Union Congress in the state, Mr. Olatunji Akinyemi, marched through the Osogbo/Gbongan road, chanting anti-government songs.

RenoOsunThe workers said that apart from the failure of the Governor Rauf Aregbesola -led administration to pay them the outstanding salaries, the same government had refused to remit pension deducted from their previous salaries to their various retirement savings accounts.

They claimed that the governor was busy spending the state’s resources on campaigns of the All Progressives Congress and left workers to suffer untold hardship

Omokri, took to his Twitter page, on Wednesday, to question the manner of change been promoted by the All Progressives Congress, APC, if one of its governors cannot pay workers’ salaries, describing it as a foretaste of the change APC promises

“Imagine the reaction if a PDP Gov budgets 18.6 Billion for his office yet cant to pay workers #whatmannerofchange? ” he posted on his twitter page.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/omokri-berates-aregbesola-you-budget-18-6-billion-for-your-office-yet-cant-pay-workers-for-5-months/

It's OK for him to budget billions for his wardrobe since he's a member of the broom gang. It doesn't matter if he owes workers salary for 1 year.

On the other hand the umbrella men shouldn't budget a dime for anything.

This is typical Nigerian politics..

I don't understand the post nonetheless, I would sit back to read comments.

THIS ONE IS TOO SMALL, JONATHAN BUDGET 12BILLION FOR ANIMALS IN ASOROCK

18 Billion big ones for himself but going round the country shouting "change". Imagine if he was a PDP governor?

The workers are getting "change" as salary.

He has used the state money for grandpa bokohar!'s campaign.
When he loses like he always do, e go clear for him eye.
Better keep some change for rainy day cos e go come after march 28.
GEJ till...you know na(2019)

WE DON HEAR

d rascal of osun state sponsored nd gave sum APC thugs 10k each to attend dat 1million man march in Lagos yet he cnt pay those working genuinely in d state

this can neva b the change we want

Gej till thiefunbu uses oral B

It would be settled soon


Meanwhile, read this

By May 29, 1999, we had 23 PDP governors, 6 AD, and 7 APP. 16 years later, this is their story:

(A) PDP (23 governors)
1. James lbori - PDP Delta - in prison for looting
2. DSP Alamieseigha - PDP Bayelsa - Ex-convict for looting
3. Lucky Igbinedion - PDP Edo - Ex-convict for looting
4. Peter Odili - PDP Rivers - In court for looting
5. Chimaroke Nnamani - PDP Enugu - In court for looting
6. Ayo Fayose - PDP Ekiti - In court for looting
7. Rasheed Ladoja - PDP Oyo - In court for looting
8. Alao Akala - PDP Oyo - In court for looting
9. Gbenga Daniel - PDP Ogun - In court for looting
10. Ikenna Ohakim - PDP Imo - In court for looting
11. Adamu Muazu - Bauchi (current PDP National
Chairman) - In court for looting over N19 Billion from the state treasury
12. Joshua Dariye - PDP Plateau - In court for looting
13. Jolly Nyame - PDP Taraba - In court for looting the state treasury
14. Abdulahi Adamu - PDP Nassarawa - In court for looting the state treasury
15. Boni Haruna - PDP Adamawa - (newly appointed minister by President Jonathan) -
In court for looting the treasury
16. Saminu Turaki - EX-Gov. PDP Jigawa - In court for looting the treasury
17. Orji Uzor Kalu - PDP Abia - In court for looting the treasury

(B-). AD to AC- 6 govs.

NO Ex governor has ever been taken to court for treasury looting.
NOTE:- Tinubu of Lagos was dragged to Code of Conduct Tribunal for having foreign accounts while in power against government
policy of zero foreign account for public officials. He was found not guilty because he had the accounts before his election to the office of governor.
Case dismissed!

(C) APP - (ANPP) 7 governors
1. Attahiru Baffarawa - APP Sokoto - In court
for looting (he is now in a PDP member)
2. Prince Abubakar Audu - ANPP Kogi - In
court for looting.

So APC made up of AD/ AC/ACN of the past is
leading the pack. Does it not make perfect
sense to allow these people to lead at the center?

APC promising gullible Nigerians fake change, while washing and cleansing themselves with epic corruption...

Change indeed!!!!.... Agent of change you better wake up and ask yourself, what type of change do you want or need!!!!

Hh

Apc why

Rubbish..

change!

Aregbe, please pay them their salaries, don't JOIN GEJ to do EVIL.

They are talking of Aregbesola and they put Tinubu's picture there. They cant just do without him.

If PDP governor try this one ehn, APC supporters go hold night vigil for that thread

[size=14pt]Apc is obviously in debt! How will they repay?! Gej till 2019! [/size]

This is just the intro on how they will run (God forbid) country.
I pity those shouting "change" up and down. Is this the change with want at federal level? After they go about lying that the FG is withholding their allocations.
Mbok, GEJ and PDP until when there is another better alternative.

For every naira Tinubu spends on your campaign you are paying back 20naira.... 1900% interest

Every APC state is under Tinubu's bondage. And until he's done milking your state. .. you can only rant to the high heavens.

APC is plain undiluted EVIL

Hmmm

Aregbe wants to invoke the anger of our corrupt-free President(GEJ)

Aregbe is a grass root man and I strongly believe he won't owe workers if money dey.
Meanwhile. Am a card carrying member of PDP in Enugu state but dis how I will vote.
I will Vote Buhari for president
Then I will vote my pdp all d way in other positions!
GEJ no get anymore goodwork up his sleeves. He's spent

what? Why millions of pple are suffering in the country.Baba God are u there in heaven?

Later they will open their western mouth that niger delta oil is not important.that we should drink our oil.


World oil market crash last August affecting montly allocation of state is already telling on osun state govt.



Vote #TeamUncleJonathan

Sai buhari

Let's. Just tink wisely b4 votin.cus is goin to. Late wen the head is cut off

Craze.
When I tell people that this APC isn't the change we need they look at me like I just received my own share of a bribe or something. But truth be told look at all these states been governed by the APC and u will see that they are far from the change they preach. Look at this state,

Lemme see who will come here and shout CHANGE an I will just simply place this course on him or her, may your employers or customers owe you whenever u get a job or if u are employed like they owe this innocent, dedicated tax payers of Osun state. So we will understand.

I don't get this change thingy. Are we blind? How can a blind tell another blind that he doesn't like the way he looks at people. You are both blind.

imagine their kind of change, I pity this guy's that wanna impose this wicked people on us....

God save this country

God bless nigeria