A Benin-based organisation, the Edo N’Okpa Motion, has suggested Edo State voters to not fall prey to the latest minimal wage of N70,000 introduced by the state authorities.
The group described the brand new wage package deal by Governor Godwin Obaseki as a Greek present hurriedly introduced to woo voters for the Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP) for the governorship election slated for September 21, 2024.
Whereas advising Edo employees to not promote their votes forward of the September governorship election, the Edo N’Okpa Motion known as on the youths to be circumspect as politicians are doubtless going to depend on them to perpetuate acts of violence through the September election.
In a press release the group issued yesterday in Benin, the state capital, which was made obtainable to journalists in Abuja and Lagos, Edo N’Okpa Motion famous N70,000 minimal wage introduced by the state authorities was pure vote shopping for.
The group’s nationwide convener, Mr Emovon Osaretin, who signed the assertion, accused Governor Obaseki of at all times equally bringing out caterpillars and bulldozers for highway tasks on the eve of election solely to take away them after polls.
He mentioned the brand new minimal wage was one in every of such “caterpillars and bulldozers” ways which shouldn’t be celebrated by the state employees and the folks of the state.
Osaretin questioned the N70,000 minimal wage “when the Governor Obaseki’s administration has not been in a position to pay the N40,000 minimal wage successfully with many employees being owed as much as six months in arrears.”
“Perhaps he’s setting booby traps for the following governor since he is aware of very effectively that his anointed governorship candidate of the PDP, Asue Ighodalo, can not win the election in Edo State,” he mentioned.
The group additionally drew the eye of Governor Obaseki to the Benin-Ugo-Abraka Street, main from Sakponba Street to Abraka, which has been ongoing since 2016.
“It’s public information that the governor often deploys caterpillars and bulldozers to this Benin-Ugo-Abraka Street and plenty of extra throughout the state each time there’s election, but lower than 10 pecent of the work has been accomplished since 2016.”
“The governor has once more introduced one other set of kit to the identical highway, and they are going to be retrieved after the election,” it lamented.
