Following a tweet by Bayelsa senator Ben Murray-Bruce that he will donate half of his wardrobe allowance to Osun workers, the Osun government has now responded.

In a statement signed by Semiu Okanlawon, the Director of Bureau of Communication and Strategy, the government accused Bruce of trivialising the issue.

Read statement below:

My attention has been drawn to a tweet by a member of Upper chamber of the National Assembly Senator Ben Murray Bruce of the Peoples Democratic Party from Bayelsa saying he will not reject the alleged hefty pay for members of the National Assembly but collect it and donate to Osun workers.

It is saddening and tragic that Mr. Murray Bruce whom many had accorded a lot of respect is too early in the day joining the fray of politicisation and trivialising the salary issue affecting more than half of the stars of the federation in this ridiculous manner.
While Nigerians are in hot debate over the alleged jumbo pay and the mood of the country Murray Bruce seems to have turned the plight of Nigerian workers to a thing of an entertainment.

Of all the states in the federation who are battling to pay salaries as a result of the precarious economic situation his party the PDP threw Nigeria into why is it that it is Osun he wants to take his pay to?

This is certainly playing to the gallery and nothing but a mockery in the faces of Nigerian workers and not only of Osun extraction. It is not only wicked but ungodly to play politics with the suffering of the people.

If the Senator’s conscience tells him his pay is too high especially in the face of the prevailing economic predicament of Nigeria the most honourable thing to do is to lead a protest for reduction and not a self serving philanthropy only in the direction of Osun workers.


http://www.forumspotz.net/osun-govt-reacts-to-sen-ben-bruces-donation-of-wardrobe-allowance/

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Of all the states in the federation who are battling to pay salaries as a result of the precarious economic situation his party the PDP threw Nigeria into why is it that it is Osun he wants to take his pay to?

Still blaming PDP when the state's financial troubles are as a result of unchecked borrowing in lieu of federal allocations based on high oil pricing.

Bruce, you see the kind of ingrates that populate Osun?

Donate the entire allowance to those who elected you and stop being an Amaechi

The height of bad belle. U no wan give persin chop. Another persin wan give am, u still dey catch feeling

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Still blaming PDP when the state's financial troubles are as a result of unchecked borrowing in lieu of federal allocations based on high oil pricing.

Bruce, you see the kind of ingrates that populate Osun?

Donate the entire allowance to those who elected you and stop being an Amaechi

Nearly all the stats under his nose in SS and SE from his own Bayelsa state and the people he represent to Delta, Abia, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Ebonyi are all in the same boat with Osun with unpaid salaries everywhere so why not attend to his own brothers and sisters at home right under his nose before dabbling into Osun with his thoughtless and idiotic gesture?

LG workers in his own Bayelsa state haven't been paid for well over a year and many suffered 70% pay cut.

Are the suffering unpaid workers in his own state invisible to him and only Osun workers hundreds of miles away are visible to his hypocritical self?



He should be leading the fight against government waste like wardrobe allowance and even refuse to accept that money if he really gives a damn about poor Nigerians instead of taking the money to create silly political drama and self aggrandizing...

aregbese <king of debt> pay your workers now

Blame the other man.

I hate people lying so shamelessly that even when it is raining they will tell everybody to go without umbrella.

How long will Aregbe keep blaming PDP and GEJ when he and Rochas donated their state's treasury to APC?

So 3months allocation can't pay 1 month salary?