Sufferings Of Unpaid Workers In Osun State.

A man who has the Sickle cell disease works for the government and has to trek everyday to work because there is no money at all to take transport because he hasnt received his salary for six months......want to know who paid when he had crisis?

His landlord has also thrown out his stuff because of unpaid rent.

''Dear Stella,

Greetings to you from this BV and the entire BV family. I don't know if this is a chronical narrative oh. Well, na with a heavy heart from Osogbo in Osun State wey I sidon for this 4am dey type you this message. I’m a civil servant working for the state. Our government has refused to pay us our salaries for six months now, as you all know. Luckily for me I have a small business that’s putting small food in my family’s mouth. Many others aren't so lucky.

So, straight to the point: I have this acquaintance; we both work at the Government House at Okefia though not in the same department. We are low level staff but even our small salary we no see. This man depends fully on his salary, he has a son in primary school and he lives in a rented one-room apartment in Ojaoba, Osogbo. And this man is a sickler! Only God knows how they’ve been surviving. 

Our ogas said we must be come to work every day, salary or not, so since this sickler doesn’t have transport money, he has been trekking to work at Government House, Okefia for some weeks now. Stella, it should be almost a kilometre EACH WAY if you’re driving oh, maybe even more, I tell you the truth. Osogbo people know what I’m talking about. Every day, na so him dey complain “My leg is paining me, my belle is paining me.” No money since to buy the medicine he takes to prevent his sickle cell crisis. And upon as he dey skinny and bony naturally, he don lose more weight join.

 Well, late last month he was having serious crisis so they took him to Asubiaro hospital. The doctors there had to contribute small small money to buy medicine and treat him. The doctors there too don broke finish as no salary since, na only God go bless them. They treated him and discharged him. Now just recently he went into crisis again as he got back from work to his friend’s house where he has been squatting for some time now since his landlord wants to chase him for house rent. And as there was no money to go to the hospital, he just remained there in terrible pains.

 It’s the small money his friend came back home with that he used to take injection at a chemist nearby meanwhile ideally he should have been on admission. But today, Monday, this man would trek again to work, maybe on an empty stomach, not sure of his next meal. This man that survived sickle cell wahala all these years, it is our government that wants to send him to his grave.

My people, please look at this and imagine what other people must be going through. This is just one person I know. Please help us ask our governor, Aregbesola, what we have done to him to deserve this. Fuel price is up, transport fare has increased (the small car I’ve been managing has spoilt again and no money to repair it so me and my children now na only public transport). 

Food price is going up daily; NEPA came and cut my light two weeks ago because I haven’t paid bill, yet no salary! And Aregbesola has been receiving monthly allocation from Federal Government till March. Is this fair? Is this acceptable?

Let Aregbesola tell us how are we supposed to survive oh. How are we and our children supposed to eat? How are we to pay our rents, hospital bills, and even transport ourselves to our work and school? Now that Buhari that he used our salaries to campaign for has won, he has said he won’t give any state money to pay the salaries they are owing their workers. So what happens to us who bore the expenses of his campaign and success? 

Why didn’t Buhari ask during the campaign where he was getting the money from to support him? After all it had been on the news since November that Aregbe hadn’t paid salaries. Why is it now that Buhari has won that he wants to start his righteousness? Does the end justify the means? Isn’t this gross insensitivity and sheer wickedness? Who will save us from such injustice? Who will speak for us? Who will fight for us and defend our most basic rights?

Please, my people, don’t remain silent in all this. If it isn’t stopped, it could be you suffering this tomorrow. Help us appeal to these our leaders to do the right thing! Help us appeal to Governor Aregbesola to alleviate our unjust suffering and pay us our six months’ salaries we have worked for. God bless you all''.

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND!!!...SOMEBODY PLEASE MAKE ME UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE WHO HAVE WORKED FOR THEIR MONIES CANNOT BE PAID...HOW CAN YOU OWE PEOPLE 6MONTHS SALARY?IT IS A CRIME AND CANNOT HAPPEN IN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD...It is a violation of ones human rights.

WTF!