The Ogun State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last election, Prince Gboyega Isiaka and a group within the party, PDP Action Movement have berated the state government on the indefinite industrial action embarked upon by the civil servants and doctors in the state. The duo asked the governor to respect the Memorandum of Understanding his government allegedly signed with the workers in the state.
According to Isiaka who expressed concerns about the incessant workers strike in the state, if Amosun had considered workers’ welfare an utmost priority, as promised during his electioneering campaign, hospitals, schools and offices would not have been closed by now, subjecting patients and citizens of the state to untold hardship. Isiaka, in a statement he personally signed noted that it is wrong for the state government to jettison an agreement it voluntarily entered into with the workers especially on the deductions from their salaries running into four years. Isiaka said “with the abundant resources available in the state and with government’s claim of generating over N6b as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) every month, government needs not to tamper with the contributory deductions of workers to finance its white Elephant projects.