Gov Aregbesola and Osun
State House of Assembly have assured state workers that the relief package
given to the state would be judiciously administered.
They said genuine workers
would soon have their outstanding salaries defrayed, while the work-in-progress
of public infrastructure would not be left unattended to.
It also vowed to drive the
anti-corruption crusade with its oversight functions, promising to break bureaucratic
bottlenecks and red tapism which are capable of dragging development at snail
speed and reducing institutions to redundancy.
The speaker, Hon Najeem
Salaam, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Goke Butikakuro,
stressed that the parliament under his watch was more than ready to bring all
ministries, departments and agencies to account on how budgetary funds
appropriated to them were managed with a view to getting them to be on their
toes and be accountable to the public.
Salaam reiterated that the
state parliament has taken the first leg of its anti-corruption crusade through
the passage of the procurement bill into law, stating that the law when signed
by Governor Rauf Aregbesola would drive the processes of contract award,
purchases of the government and other state transactions; noting that punitive
measures were well spelt out for the transgressors.
The Speaker also disclosed
that the parliament would obtain the report of ongoing workers’ audit and frisk
it in order to be updated on the actual numerical strength of the work force of
the state with a view to giving rough tackles to the would-be manipulators of
the process.
He expressed the support of
assembly to Gov Aregbesola in plugging all the financial leakages and cutting
of cost of governance, while corrupt officials would denied the benefit of the
corruption proceeds in the state.
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