Senator
Ben Bruce has donated his wardrobe allowance to unpaid workers in Osun state
and widows in his constituency.
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Ben
Murray Bruce, a Nigerian senator representing Bayelsa East constituency, says
he is donating his wardrobe allowance to unpaid workers in Osun state and
widows in his constituency.
Bruce made this known on Wednesday while
addressing Nigerians via Twitter over the heated N9 billion wardrobe allowance
and subsequent clarification by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal
Commission (RMAFC).
“Now that RMAFC has revealed the truth,
Nigerians must identify the source of the lie that we were to be paid billions
as wardrobe allowance. The billions for wardrobe allowance lie unnecessarily
heated the polity & distracted us. We should authenticate things before
believing it,” he said.
“There is a Freedom of Information Law in
place. The press should use it. Imagine the productive time we spent on the
wardrobe allowance lie. I, Senator Ben Bruce, call on you to publicly publish
our allowances. Truth and transparency are the best defence to lies.
“I, Ben Murray Bruce, will not sit down idly,
while my fellow citizens die because salaries have not been paid. As a first
step, I am immediately donating my wardrobe allowance to unpaid workers in Osun
state and widows in my constituency.”
He urged
his friends to help by donating food items to other Nigerians in need. “We are
starting in Osun, but we will not end there. I will do as much to help workers
who’ve not been paid in other states. I call on all my friends and followers on
Twitter and Facebook to donate NON PERISHABLE food items for these our brothers
in need.
“As soon as my wardrobe allowance is paid, I
will divide it into two. Half will be publicly given to the NLC Chairman Osun.
The other half will be publicly given to the head of widows association in my
community of Akasa.” Osun state workers have not been paid for over seven
months, with Rauf Aregbesola, the state’s governor promising to pay them before
the end of June
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