Pay Workers salaries>>Akume urges Ortom

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MINISTER of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Senator George Akume, on Monday, insisted that all the leaders of the Benue State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, were asking from the state Governor, Samuel Ortom, for accountability.

Akume said this while speaking to a crowd of APC members at the City Bay in Makurdi.
According to him, instead of the governor to address issues he raised during a press conference in Abuja, last week, “they were rather organising press conferences and heaping insults on me.”

Akume said, “About a week ago, some sons and daughters met in Abuja to take a look at the outburst in Benue and we are worried about the volume of insults being heaped on a daily basis by the governor n of the state.

“We have learned that a new chapter has been added to the governance structure in Benue State and that is the compendium of lies and innuendos. It has become a veritable act in the governance of Benue at a certain level; you avoid lies you don’t have to tell your people lies.

“What we crafted we thought was in the best interest of Benue State and we expected the governor to carefully go through the documents and see the remedial measures.

“If we asked the government to pay the salary of workers which is right for our people, are we making a mistake, if we asked our poor parents who have toiled and sweated and got bloodied to train to be paid pensions, are we making a mistake?

“Is that too much of the demand to talk about gratuities that are pending and will continue to be spent?

“So, we just invited the government to act on that. Instead of answering the queries raised it rather generated a lot of insults in the press conference. I have never called myself an angel and I’m not one. But in this world of ours, demons become saints and saints are demonised; such is life.”

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