An Akure lawyer, Morakinyo Ogele has given a seven-day ultimatum
to Governors across the federation, who are not ready to pay the
N30,000 minimum wage to workers to resign or face mass protest of
workers.
The rights activist threatened to lead a massive protest against
what he called oppression of poor masses,alleging that office of
the governor’s first ladies was a waste of funds.
According to him, governors spend one-third of the state
allocation which was supposed to take care of urgent need of the
people on the office of the first lady.
In a statement in Akure, Ogele insisted that the state governors
have the capacity to pay the said N30,000.
Based on this, Ogele however called for the immediate scrapping
of office of the first ladies ,saying the office was
unconstitutional.
The statement said” There is no section in 1999 constitution
recognising the office of first lady,governors should engage their
wives at government house attending to domestic demands of their
husbands.
“This office is draining the state treasuries,some of the first
ladies are operating parallel offices with the governors having
their own pool of vehicles, and personal assistants”.
Ogele also advised the state governors to reduce the number of
their aides and cutting other forms of wastages to reduce the cost
of infrastructure.
He advised governors to reorder their priorities in reducing
wastage and restrain themselves from spending what is not
beneficial to their citizenry.
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