Osun state workers will soon smile, Assembly assures workers

Osogbo—Osun State House of Assembly has assured that
the relief package given to the state would be judiciously
administered, saying genuine workers would soon have their
outstanding salaries defrayed, while the work-in-progress of
public infrastructure would not be left unattended to.
It also vowed to drive the anti-corruption crusade with its
oversight functions, promising to break bureaucratic
bottlenecks and red-tapism, which are capable of dragging
development at snail speed and reducing institutions to
redundancy.
The speaker, Hon. Najeem Salaam, in a statement by his
Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Goke Butikakuro, stressed that
the parliament under his watch was more than ready to
bring all ministries, departments and agencies to account on
how budgetary funds appropriated to them were managed
with a view to getting them to be on their toes and be
accountable to the public.
Salaam reiterated that the state parliament has taken the
first leg of its anti-corruption crusade through the passage
of the procurement bill into law, stating that the law when
signed by Governor Rauf Aregbesola would drive the
processes of contract award, purchases of the government
and other state transactions; noting that punitive measures
were well spelt out for the transgressors.
The Speaker also disclosed that the parliament would obtain
the report of ongoing workers' audit and frisk it in order to
be updated on the actual numerical strength of the work
force of the state with a view to giving rough tackles to the
would-be manipulators of the process.
He expressed the support of assembly to Gov. Aregbesola in
plugging all the financial leakages and cutting of cost of
governance, while corrupt officials would denied the benefit
of the corruption proceeds in the state.