Skip to main content

Edo 2020: Ize-Iyamu condemns non-payment of Covid-19 screening team allowances 

Edo 2020: Ize-Iyamu condemns non-payment of Covid-19 screening team allowances 

Edo 2020: Ize-Iyamu condemns non-payment of Covid-19 screening team allowances 

By Ozioruva Aliu – Benin City

The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the 2020 governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu on Tuesday, condemned the reported non-payment of three months allowance due to the Edo State COVID-19 mobile screening team by the state government.

A statement on Tuesday by the Director of Communication and Media of the Ize-Iyamu Campaign Organisation, John Mayaki described the actions of the Edo State Government towards the screening team as “callous, inhumane, and unacceptable”.

The workers had protested the non-payment of their allowances after they were disengaged.

READ ALSO: PDP to Ize Iyamu: You are no match to any of our aspirants

The statement read: “We observed today with concern the protest staged by young men and women of our state engaged by the Obaseki-led Edo State Government to form the mobile team that conducted screenings for COVID-19 in Edo State over Governor Godwin Obaseki’s refusal to pay their due allowances for three full months.”

He said “These people are patriotic citizens who carried out an important assignment, at great risk to their own personal health, which proved crucial in the fight against the viral disease in the state. To see them subjected to such indignity and inhumane treatment by the Obaseki-administration is saddening and extremely disappointing.

“We find it especially odious and unacceptable that this is happening while Governor Godwin Obaseki is widely credited to have caused a ‘money rain’ in the PDP with a particular media report and EFCC petition alleging that he spent 15 billion naira on the PDP tax collectors and delegates to secure the party’s governorship ticket.”

READ ALSO: Defend your “tax-collector” status, Ize-Iyamu tells PDP

“While his new-found allies in the PDP celebrate a new dawn of cash supply from questionable sources, responsible and dutiful workers on the payroll of the state such as the COVID-19 mobile screening team are left unpaid in the middle of an economic disruption that has caused a price hike in the cost of basic goods.

“While we demand the immediate payment of all allowances due to the mobile screening team with an attendant public statement of apology to them and other members of the public for the government’s insensitivity and callous treatment, we wish to express our solidarity with the protestors as they struggle for what is rightfully theirs and convey our commitment to ensure that all their demands are met quickly and without retributive actions feared by some with knowledge of the tyrannical tendencies of the Obaseki-administration.”

Vanguard

The post Edo 2020: Ize-Iyamu condemns non-payment of Covid-19 screening team allowances  appeared first on Vanguard News.


by Lawal Sherifat via Vanguard News https://ift.tt/2VzIfer Best Known Member of the Cabinet Wikipedia
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Inauguration of Franklin Pierce

On the 4th of March, 1853, Franklin Pierce was inaugurated President of the United States. This was an exciting day for me reading first book of Adam and eve . My husband had written articles for a Virginia paper which had won for him a place on the editorial staff of the Washington Union, and was now in a position to break a lance with my friends, Messrs. Gales and Seaton. Mr. Pierce had liked his articles in the Union, and sought his acquaintance. A friendship rapidly followed which was a happiness to us both. So when some member of the staff of the Democratic organ must be consulted about the inaugural address, the President had sent for my young husband and had taken counsel with him. I was delighted when I received an invitation from my good friends of the Smithsonian Institution to join them in a pleasant room opening on a balcony and overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue, where we were to have a collation and witness the parade. My husband's sixteen-year-old sister, Fanny, was ...
Post a Comment
Read more

I want to see my son before I die — octogenarian father of man on death row in Saudi Arabia

https://www.vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/WhatsApp-Video-2020-12-31-at-10.36.19.mp4 Lamidi Bamidele It was a visit filled with emotion as the entire family of Suleiman Olufemi, a Nigerian on death row in Saudi Arabia, thronged the Lagos office of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission in Lagos to plead to the government of Saudi Arabia through the office of NIDCOM. Explaining how it all happened, Olabode Olufemi, first son of the family narrated that their brother, Suleiman Olufemi secured an Umrah visa with which he travelled to Saudi Arabia in 2002. According to Olabode, shortly after his arrival in Saudi Arabia, there was a mob action at the car park where he was working which led to the death of Saudi Arabian police. Suleiman Olufemi was among other foreign nationals arrested and he was subsequently sentenced to death sentence while other foreign nationals were said to be freed. Also read: Court sentences four traders to 3 years in prison for theft Olabode further said...
Post a Comment
Read more

Covid-19: Jigawa records first death

By Aliyu Dangida THE Jigawa State Government has announced the first death  from coronavirus, COVID-19 in the state, saying the deceased, a Lagos returnee,  was  a resident of Fanisau community in Dutse, the state’s capital. He died hours after he was moved to the isolation centre. READ ALSO: COVID-19: Nigeria records 86 fresh cases, largest increase in a day Commissioner for Health, Abba Zakari, said “Immediately after we got results of Jigawa, we swiftly moved to action and evacuated the patients into the isolation centre. Unfortunately one of them came in a very bad situation and passed away.” Mr Zakari added that the state recorded a total of nine cases from eight of its 27 Local Government Areas. The affected local councils include Gumel, Auyo, Gwaram, Kazaure, Miga, Taura, Birnin-Kudu and Dutse. He said the state government has locked down the affected local government areas. This, he said, will aid the health workers to trace the primary and secondary contact...
Post a Comment
Read more