The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Adegboyega Oyetola and media aide of Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola are at loggerhead with each other over non-remittance and payment of contributory pension of civil servants who retired in 2018.
Aregbesola’s aide, Sola Fasure on social media argued that Governor Oyetola should be held responsible for the pension arrears of pensioners because the government is a continuum, and anybody who assumed the seat inherited both asset and liability.
He said: “I have no intention of inciting retirees against the governor. Aregbesola left the government on November 28, 2018, having left the government; he is no longer in a position to pay pensioners anything. It is the responsibility of the new administration to pay them. Aregbesola was applauded for remitting contributory pension of workers.”
Responding, Ompidan, in a statement said: “claim that Governor Oyetola be held responsible for the inability of Contributory Pensioners, who retired since 2018 to get their pay, is tantamount to pitting pensioners against my Principal.
“I agree Government is a continuum, where assets and liabilities are inherited. We realise this and that is why we have carried on without complaining. But people like Sola Fasure, would not let us be. And since 2018, we have been managing the liabilities, including reducing the indebtedness to the Contributory Pensioners and other categories of pensioners while ensuring that we are up to date with our remittances since 2018.
”If we had met the deductions made before we came in and we mismanaged them, that’s when Fasure’s claim becomes tenable. But we didn’t inherit the deductions. We are only sourcing for money to pay the deductions that were made before we came in, which were neither passed to us nor disbursed to the Contributory Pensioners or other categories of pensioners.” Continue Reading
