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"Save Our Souls SOS" Kogi People Cry To PMB by respect80(m): 2:46pm On Mar 23, 2017 |
Some citizens of Kogi state, including civil servants and
pensioners, have written a Save Our Soul letter to
President Mohammadu Buhari asking him to to save them
from the severe agony they are going through.
Prseident Muhammadu Buhari
The Kogites in an SOS titled ‘Save Our Soul; A Cry Of Agony
From The Army Of Victims Of Maladministration In Kogi
State To Your Excellency’ and signed by a Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) youth leaders and a lawyer from
the State, Mr Usman Okai Austin, said that it was ‘evident
that the common denominators in Kogi State today are;
servitude, starvation, depression and neglect which was as
a results of the over 14 months nonpayment of salaries and
pensions to the workers and pensioners some of whom are
dying almost on daily basis arising from avoidable
circumstances’
The SOS further said ‘that all these financial interventions
meant to ameliorate the sufferings of civil servants and
pensioners have been grossly misappropriated and
mismanaged’.
Thy begged the President to save them from abject
poverty or they will ‘all perish in the hands of Governor
Yahaya Bello and his team of oppressors’
Read the letter below
Mr President Sir,
SAVE OUR SOUL; A CRY OF AGONY FROM THE ARMY OF
VICTIMS OF MALADMINISTRATION IN KOGI STATE TO
YOUR EXCELLENCY
Greetings and best wishes from the army of the oppressed,
exploited and victimized citizens of Kogi State. We wish to
sincerely thank Almighty Allah (SWT) for the speedy
recovery He granted you and at the same time pray that
He grants you the strength and wisdom to pilot the affairs
of this great nation to lofty heights.
Your Excellency, we are compelled to bother you at this
time that you just returned to office,bearing in mind the
fact that there are other urgent state matters requiring
your attention.
However, we consider this medium as our last life line
because of the serious and expedient nature of our case.
Your Excellency, we presume you mind not have been
familiar with our situation in Kogi State and as such it is
appropriate for us to succinctly explain to you.
Kogi our beloved state is undergoing tough trial and
awkward avoidable circumstances imposed on us by his
Excellency Governor Yahaya Bello. This may sound
unbelievable to you, but Kogi citizens are in severe agony
resulting from the maladministration of our Governor.
The suffering of kogites is evident from the over 14 months
nonpayment of salaries and pensions to the workers and
pensioners some of whom are dying almost on daily basis
arising from avoidable circumstances. As it is in Kogi State
today, the common denominators are; servitude, starvation,
depression and neglect.
Your Excellency, you may recall that the immediate past
administration in Kogi state under the leadership of
Governor Idris Wada, applied for fairly over Fifty billion
naira (N50, 000,000,000) bailout fund to settle all salaries
and pensions arrears and other related issues. However,
the bailout fund was not released to him. The current
administration of Governor Yahaya Bello was able to access
the sum of twenty billion (N20, 000,000,000) of that sum.
In the same vein, several financial interventions such as
Paris Club money refund, refund of the expenses by the
administration of former Governor Idris Ibrahim as well as
the statutory monthly allocations and the improved
Internally Generated Revenue hovering almost a billion
naira monthly were all accessed by the current
administration.
Regrettably, all these financial interventions meant to
ameliorate the sufferings of civil servants and pensioners
have been grossly misappropriated and mismanaged by our
Governor and his team. Without iota of exaggeration, as we
write this letter to you, the civil servants and pensioners
are owed 14 months of salaries and pensions respectively
and are thereby wallowing in abject poverty.
Currently all the state owns tertiary institutions have
been on strike for months now as well as the medical
Doctors in the state are also on strike due to non payment
of salaries.
Worrisome is the disturbing fact that, whenever we tried
to protest against this injustice, the Governor uses the
security apparatus to harass and to suppress the hapless
innocent citizens. In fact, he has also perpetually played
the mind-game on us by making us to understand that he
has an intimate rapport with the Presidency and he is more
or less a SACRED COW!
Thus, officials at the Federal Level would not hearken to us
no matter how much we cry. Sadly enough, the media that
is supposed to be the veritable avenue to tell you and your
God fearing team about our predicament, has been hijacked
by the Governor’s team . And these heavily financed media
aides have completely dispossessed us of all avenues to be
heard.
The Governor’s frequent excuse for this deprivation is that
there is an ongoing screening of the workers and
pensioners. This screening which started on the 22nd of
February, 2016 is still ongoing. This has humiliated,
exterminated, exhausted, extorted, deprived and tampered
with the integrity and the wellbeing of Pensioners and Civil
servants. As earlier explained above, civil servants and
pensioners meet their on untimely death almost on daily
basis in Kogi State because of this arranged screening
meant to buy time and dodge from the responsibility of
salary payment.
We are ready to furnish you with facts of the civil servants
and pensioners’ predicaments of mostly heart attack and
strokes sequel to the nonpayment of their entitlements and
which subsequently culminated to their untimely death.
On this matter, many Kogi citizens believe that the Federal
Government had tactically stayed aloof and refused to
monitor/ensure these financial interventions benefit the
Civil servants and Pensioners they were truly meant for.
The reason for this conception is the general opinion that
Governor Yahaya Bello is ‘The Presidency,s Sacred Cow’. Of
course, he has openly boasted about this and there is a
recent video clip in which he unequivocally told the workers
to report him (the Governor) to whoever they so wished
adding that he was invincible.
OBSERVATION AND PRAYERS
It is in view of the above that we make the following
observations and prayers. We strongly believe that you
would use your good offices to treat this with dispatch as
our father and as custodian of justice, equity and fairness.
Hence, we observe and pray as follows:
1. That Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has so far
accessed N20 Billion Naira bailout fund and over 11 Billion
Naira Paris Club Money Refund, aside the consistent
monthly allocations and other funds like the N10 billion
Naira ecological funds refund.
2. That Governor Yahaya Bello has deliberately and
consistently misappropriated all these financial
interventions. And the monies were not used for the
purposes (salaries and pensions) meant for except that the
funds were diverted for private use by the Governor and
his political cronies.
3. That the Civil Servants and Pensioners are still owed 14
months of salaries and pension arrears.
4. That the Governor has cleverly employed an unending
screening exercise as a delay tactics and excuse to keep us
quiet. A screening which could have been long concluded
using BVN to sort out the ghost workers.
5. That the Federal Ministry of Finance should stop all
financial interventions to Kogi State especially the
forthcoming Paris Refund money, until the Governor is able
to account for the ones he has received so far.
6. That we know as a fact that Governor Yahaya Bello
would still refuse to pay workers and pensioners even if you
give him the Paris Club Refund money.
7. That the Federal Government should send a monitoring
team that would ensure further financial interventions is
judiciously used to resolve salaries and pensions.
8. That refusal to check the reckless and profligate
lifestyle and spending of the Governor and his aides would
continue to deepen the agony of workers and pensioners
and invariably undermine the war against corruption.
We therefore, appeal at this point to hastily come to our aid
or we all perish in the hands of Governor Yahaya Bello and
his team of oppressors.
Thank you and God bless you.
Yours faithfully,
Usman Okai Austi http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/kogi-citizens-write-buhari-say-severe-agony/
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Re: "Save Our Souls SOS" Kogi People Cry To PMB by Jabioro: 2:51pm On Mar 23, 2017 |
The letter too long, Daura man have no stamina to read longthingsome letter.... |
Re: "Save Our Souls SOS" Kogi People Cry To PMB by respect80(m): 2:55pm On Mar 23, 2017 |
Jabioro:sure. But the title already said the purpose already. |
Re: "Save Our Souls SOS" Kogi People Cry To PMB by Fmartin(m): 3:06pm On Mar 23, 2017 |
only God cn save a soul. |
Re: "Save Our Souls SOS" Kogi People Cry To PMB by Googleus(m): 4:21pm On Mar 23, 2017 |
And u believe that
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Re: "Save Our Souls SOS" Kogi People Cry To PMB by titusenes: 4:33pm On Mar 23, 2017 |
Chukwu meranyi ebere. God intervene in kogi matter |
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