Unpaid compensations: Kogi residents compose touching letter to Buhari, say they are in serious distress

A few subjects of Kogi state, including government employees and retired people, have composed a Save Our Soul letter to President Muhammadu Buhari requesting that he spare them from the extreme desolation they are experiencing. 

The Kogites in a SOS titled 'Spare Our Soul; A Cry Of Agony From The Army Of Victims Of Maladministration In Kogi State To Your Excellency' and marked by a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youth pioneers and a legal advisor from the state, Mr Usman Okai Austin, said that it was 'apparent that the shared factors in Kogi state today are; starvation, despondency and disregard which was as an aftereffects of the more than 14 months non-installment of compensations and annuities to the specialists and beneficiaries, some of whom are passing on nearly on regular schedule emerging from avoidable conditions' 

As indicated by Vanguard, The SOS letter additionally stated: "That all these money related intercessions intended to improve the sufferings of government workers and beneficiaries have been horribly misused and botched." 

Kogi nationals compose touching letter to Buhari, say they are in extreme desolation over unpaid pay rates 

Kogi nationals compose touching letter to Buhari, say they are in extreme desolation over unpaid pay rates 

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Thy asked the President to spare them from servile destitution or they will 'all die in the hands of Governor Yahaya Bello and his group of oppressors" 

Perused the letter beneath 

Mr President Sir, 

Spare OUR SOUL; A CRY OF AGONY FROM THE ARMY OF VICTIMS OF MALADMINISTRATION IN KOGI STATE TO YOUR EXCELLENCY 

Welcome and all the best from the armed force of the mistreated, misused and exploited residents of Kogi state. We wish to genuinely express gratitude toward Almighty Allah (SWT) for the quick recuperation He conceded you and in the meantime implore that He gives you the quality and intelligence to pilot the issues of this extraordinary country to grand statures. 

Your Excellency, we are constrained to trouble you as of now that you just came back to office, remembering the way that there are other earnest state matters requiring your consideration. 

Notwithstanding, we consider this medium as our last life line in view of the genuine and practical nature of our case. 

Your Excellency, we assume you mind not have been acquainted with our circumstance in Kogi state and accordingly it is proper for us to compactly disclose to you. 

Kogi our adored state is experiencing intense trial and clumsy avoidable conditions forced on us by his Excellency Governor Yahaya Bello. This may sound fantastic to you, yet Kogi nationals are in extreme anguish coming about because of the maladministration of our Governor. 

The misery of Kogites is obvious from the more than 14 months non-installment of compensations and benefits to the laborers and retired people some of whom are passing on nearly on consistent schedule emerging from avoidable conditions. As it is in Kogi state today, the shared factors are; starvation, despondency and disregard. 

Your Excellency, you may review that the prompt past organization in Kogi state under the administration of Governor Idris Wada, connected for genuinely more than Fifty billion naira (N50, 000,000,000) bailout reserve to settle all pay rates and annuities overdue debts and other related issues. Be that as it may, the bailout store was not discharged to him. The present organization of Governor Yahaya Bello could get to the whole of twenty billion (N20, 000,000,000) of that total. In a similar vein, a few monetary mediations, for example, Paris Club cash discount, discount of the costs by the organization of previous Governor Idris Ibrahim and in addition the statutory month to month distributions and the enhanced Internally Generated Revenue drifting just about a billion naira month to month were altogether gotten to by the present organization. 

Unfortunately, all these money related mediations intended to improve the sufferings of government employees and retired people have been horribly abused and fumbled by our Governor and his group. Without particle of embellishment, as we compose this letter to you, the government workers and retired people are owed 14 months of compensations and benefits separately and are in this way suffering from servile neediness. 

As of now all the state claims tertiary foundations have been on strike throughout recent months and in addition the therapeutic Doctors in the state are additionally on strike because of non installment of pay rates. 

Troubling is the exasperating certainty that, at whatever point we attempted to challenge this bad form, the Governor utilizes the security mechanical assembly to hassle and to stifle the hapless guiltless nationals. Truth be told, he has likewise never-endingly played the mind-diversion on us by making us to comprehend that he has a private affinity with the Presidency and he is pretty much a SACRED COW! 

Accordingly, authorities at the Federal Level would not notice to us regardless of the amount we cry. Tragically enough, the media that should be the veritable road to let you know and your God dreading group about our bind, has been captured by the Governor's group . What's more, these intensely financed media helpers have totally seized us of all roads to be listened. 

The Governor's continuous reason for this hardship is that there is an on-going screening of the specialists and retired people. This screening which began on the 22nd of February, 2016 is still on-going. This has embarrassed, eradicated, depleted, coerced, denied and messed with the honesty and the prosperity of Pensioners and Civil workers. As prior clarified above, government workers and beneficiaries meet their on less than ideal demise nearly on consistent schedule in Kogi state due to this masterminded screening intended to purchase time and avoid from the duty of compensation installment. 

We are prepared to outfit you with certainties of the government employees and retired people's quandaries of for the most part heart assault and strokes spin-off of the non-installment of their qualifications and which in this way finished to their unfavorable passing. 

On this matter, numerous Kogi subjects trust that the Federal Government had strategically remained detached and declined to screen/guarantee these money related mediations advantage the Civil workers and Pensioners they were really implied for. The explanation behind this origination is the general assessment that Governor Yahaya Bello is 'The Presidency,s Sacred Cow'. Obviously, he has straightforwardly gloated about this and there is a current video cut in which he unequivocally advised the specialists to report him (the Governor) to whoever they so wished including that he was powerful. 

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Perception AND PRAYERS 

It is in perspective of the over that we mention the accompanying objective facts and supplications. We emphatically trust that you would utilize your great workplaces to regard this with dispatch as our dad and as caretaker of equity, value and decency. 

Consequently, we watch and ask as takes after: 

1. That Kogi state senator, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has so far gotten to N20 Billion Naira bailout finance and more than 11 Billion Naira Paris Club Money Refund, aside the reliable month to month assignments and different assets like the N10 billion Naira environmental assets discount. 

2. That Governor Yahaya Bello has intentionally and reliably misused all these budgetary mediations. Also, the monies were not utilized for the reasons (pay rates and annuities) implied for with the exception of that the assets were occupied for private use by the Governor and his political comrades. 

3. That the Civil Servants and Pensioners are still owed 14 months of pay rates and annuity overdue debts. 

4. That the Governor has keenly utilized an unending screening exercise as a postpone strategies and reason to keep us calm. A screening which could have been for quite some time closed utilizing BVN to deal with the apparition laborers. 

5. That the Federal Ministry of Finance ought to stop every single budgetary intercession to Kogi state particularly the expected Paris Refund cash, until the Governor can represent the ones he has gotten up until now. 

6. That we know as a reality that Governor Yahaya Bello would in any case decline to pay laborers and retired people regardless of the possibility that you give him the Paris Club Refund cash. 

7. That the Federal Government ought to send a checking group that would guarantee promote monetary mediations is prudently used to determine pay rates and annuities. 

8. That refusal to check the heedless and reprobate way of life and spending of the Governor and his associates would keep on deepening the distress of laborers and retired people and perpetually undermine the war against defilement. 

We along these lines, advance now to hurriedly go to our guide or we as a whole die in the hands of Governor Yahaya Bello and his group of oppressors. 

Much obliged to you and God bless