@KWARAGOVT TO PAY ‘SACKED’ SURE-P WORKERS SALARY ARREARS The leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Kwara state,Dr Bukola Saraki, has announced that workers of the Subsidy Reinvestment programme (SURE-P) that were “sacked” following their allegiance to the party, will be paid latest by today. (Tuesday). Saraki, announced the cheering news while addressing APC supporters in Oyun local government area of the state during a campaign tour of the area. “The SURE- P participants that were sacked, I want to assure you we will pay them latest by Tuesday when we would have completed our verification,” he said. Kwara state and the federal government have been at logger heads over alleged politicisation of the scheme in the state following the defection of scores of people from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to APC in the state. Two coordinators of the scheme in the state,Alhaji AbdulGaniyu Olododo( Kwara central) and his counter part in Kwara south, Alh.Kola Shittu, have at different times, accused the state co- coordinator of the scheme,Chief Moses Ibeyemi, of replacing the names of PDP members who defected to APC. Saraki while addressing APC members in Oyun lamented that the federal government had subjected the people of the state to hardship through some of its actions. He lambasted the Jonathan administration for condoning corruption, stressing that funds that were supposed to come to state for development were being stolen by public officials under Jonathan. The former Kwara governor, said his administration was able to record success under PDP because the administration of the late president Umar Musa Yar’ Adu, was not corrupt like Jonathan’s. “All the money that should be going to states for developments is being stolen by those in Abuja and that is why we are in this situation today. “The achievements we were able to record in the state while I was governor ,were done during the administration of late president Umar Musa Yar’ Adu. For us to meet your demands you must vote General Muhammad Buhari as president in the coming election,he is the only one that can fix Nigeria”,he said. Saraki while fielding questions from journalists in Ijagbo emphasized the need for federal government to reduce the pump prices of petroleum products below N70 to correspond with the drop in the oil price ain the international market. Though the federal government on Sunday announced the reduction of oil pump price to N87 per liter, Saraki dismissed the excuse that it took Nigeria so long to reduce the pump price because it imports refined petroleum. He said international refineries have had to reduce their prices since cost of their unprocessed commodity has been reduced almost by 50% and that the landing cost of PMS has reduced at least by N30.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 07:32:44 +0000
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