The National
Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Kogi chapter, on Thursday accused the Senate
of playing politics with the fate of unpaid civil servants in the state.
A statement by the NYCN Chairman, Mr
Oladele Nihi on Thursday in Lokoja, said the council was deeply concerned over
the purported donation of 1, 260 bags of rice to civil servants in Kogi.
Nihi wondered why the Senate did not
find it appropriate to make similar donations to civil servants nationwide owed
salaries by state governments.
“We see
these actions and reactions of the senators as unguided and a desperate move to
toil with the collective sensibility of the good people of Kogi and not only
the civil servants.
“It is being orchestrated by
primordial instincts to paint Kogi in the dark light for cheap and selfish
political gains. It is an insult on us.
“Kogi might be feeling the brunt of
the economic crisis that is currently bedevilling the whole country, but that
does not mean a group of people with inordinate ambition should sit in Abuja
and paint Kogi like a Somalia of some sort,’’ Nihi said.
He said that if the intentions of
the Senators were genuine, they would have made the donation to all the 9,000
civil servants in the state and not the 1,620 bags they were reported to have
donated.
“One would expect that the Senate
which is the highest law making body in the country be more decorous and fair
in attending to such matters as sensitive as this.
“We expect the distinguished
senators to be non partisan and fair by sending delegation to verify the true
state of things before playing to the gallery,’’ he added.
Nihi argued that those trying to
mock Kogi civil servants “from their comfort zone in Abuja, are doing so to
simply earn wings of egocentric and self-absorbed motives or acting a script.”
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports that Sen. Dino Melaye on Wednesday told journalists at the end of
plenary, that 40 senators had donated 1,260 bags of rice and other relief
materials to ease the sufferings of Kogi workers.
NAN
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