A citizen apparently wrote the Ondo state government via the Information commissioner's facebook page.
The commissioner's response is instructive and commendable. Here is the full text of the exchange:
Isola Oluwasina Adenle November 22 at 5:16am
Sir,let our caring heart Gov,Remove d disparity in salary of state health workers and deir counterpart at the LG levels.thanks
Commisioner's Response.
Noted! Message will be passed to the appropriate quarters. It is your govt; therefore anything that is doable will be done to make the long suffering of Ondo state people happy. I however will say at this rate when everyone is asking for a salary increase, I speak as a Nigerian who is concerned not as a govt official, the time will come when people should not expect govt to provide any amenity in form of healthcare,roads,education,etc for all the money would have been used to pay salaries, as at now as many as about nine states in the federation cannot meet up with wages and salaries as at when due.Solution.Let us get our politics right, vote in credible people into all political offices and let us re appropriate that which belongs to all of us at the Federal level, then get our economy right because if minimum wage is 50,000 and a tin of milk goes for 1000'what has the Average Nigerian gained? Less than 20percent of Nigerians earn salaries of any form, so no increase in wages for them “but if we get the politics right and consequently the economy right, then shall we expect the living standards of the average Naija man to improve even on a minimum wage of 5,000.Pls the above is my personal view, I invite Nigerians to debate this?
The real challenge for the commissioner is to take the debate he asks of Nigerians to the public.
And speaking of salaries, it is curious commissioner Akerele does not make references to the salaries of public office holders as it compares with the slant of his argument.
We would like his thoughts on that.
