ACN accuses Daniel of selling govt cars at give away prices

From Kolade Larewaju
ABEOKUTA – THE Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN] in Ogun has warned against alleged fraudulent auction of government vehicles by the out-going Governor Olugbenga Daniel administration.

A statement by the party’s publicity secretary, Mr. Sola Lawal today said that the Daniel administration last week issued a directive for the sale of the vehicles to officials who hitherto used them following the outcome of gubernatorial election.

According to the party, the unlawful machination would see each official car in government pool being sold for a paltry three hundred thousand naira [N300, 000]. Payments would be made into government treasury.

The party warned government officials “to be weary of the Greek gift as the in- coming administration of Senator Ibikunle Amosun may not honor such deal meant to frustrate the rebuilding plan of in-coming Amosun government”.

The party also alleged that mass recruitment of staff into Ogun State civil service was being carried out by the Daniel administration as it wound up its eight years and condemned the action of Governor Daniel who it said has asked that applications be brought from all the local governments to his

Sagamu private residence adding that it was not only mischievous but also a plot to weaken the rebuilding plans of Senator Amosun.

The party said that it was not against the employment of the people of the state, but  that “this last minute recruitment by a government which has annihilated and muzzled its workforce cannot be in the interest of the civil service in particular and the state in general.

“Is this not the same government that has inflicted untold hardship on its workers, particularly through its epileptic attitude to payment of salaries and emoluments as well as refusal to remit the deductions made from teacher’s salaries into the cooperative fund? Is this not the same government that the doctors in its employment recently protested its insensitivity to their pitiable plight?

“For this same government to now turn round while on its way out to create the impression that it is caring and magnanimous is suspicious and should be viewed with skepticism”.

The ACN recalled that it was “also in this same roguish attitude that the Daniel government, in his desperate pre-poll move recently announced it plans to pay the N18, 000 minimum wage to civil servants whom he had callously degraded for long.

“We only urge workers in Ogun State to be patient for the take-off of the ACN-led government as the rebranding of the civil service is one of the agenda in its rebuilding progamme for Ogun State.

“It is glaring that Governor Daniel after failing in his bid to install his stooge is now trying to cause confusion and set traps that may put in danger the smooth running of the government of Senator Amosun.

“It is in this wise that we are urging the people, particularly the civil servants not to relent in their efforts to ensure smooth enthronement of a government that is not only sensitive to their predicament but also committed to meeting their expectations”.