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the People’s Democratic Party PDP in Sokoto State chapter has cries out that the current APC government under Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto has with-held the pensions of a large number of retired Permanent Secretaries and Directors-General, especially those who voluntarily withdrew from service a few days to the inception of the administration last May.
In a statement Signed by Hassan Sahabi Sanyinnawal, PDP PublicitySecretary, Sokoto State made available to news men revealed that
Their investigations further reveal that the category of civil servants, who sacrificed their lives in the service of the state for decades, are deprived of this statutory entitlement in May and June, for real or imagined political reasons.
“Also among the victims of this vendetta by the APC government of Ahmed Aliyu are Permanent Secretaries, who were appointed several years ago, including a few, who were actually upgraded to the position during the tenure of Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko as Governor of the state”.
The statement further said that, the State PDP is also aware that a number of former members of the State Executive Council, Special Advisers and Senior Special Assistants have not been paid their last salary, which is for May 2023, even though they had served in that capacity until May 29.
“And We wish to put on record, our total condemnation of this vendetta on sons and daughters of our state, whose ONLY fault is failing to subject themselves to the whims of the political overlords of the day”, the statement revealed.
The state PDP also hereby puts the State Government on notice to settle the arrears of the pensions/salaries of the affect public servants, along with their entitlements for July 2023.
Failure to respect this fair ultimatum will leave the PDP with no option but to encourage the affected public servants to seek redress with the appropriate agencies.
The PDP view it as a very disturbing development, when the State Government is preoccupied with the setting up of unnecessary witch-hunt committees, while innocent citizens in the state are being killed or kidnapped by armed bandits almost on daily basis.
For the PDP and all right-thinking people, the energy that Ahmed Aliyu is dissipating on needless manhunts ought to have been directed at working with security agencies, the traditional institution (which he is instead targeting) and communities to combat the greater problem of insecurity in the state.
Finally according to the statement that reads “Our Party will not, in any event, stand aside and watch the maltreatment of citizens and gross abuse of their constitutional rights by the APC regime, due to blind partisan sentiments”.
