OSUN COMMISSIONER DID NOT CALL PENSIONERS PUBLIC NUISANCE
OSUN COMMISSIONER DID NOT CALL PENSIONERS PUBLIC NUISANCE
The attention of the Commissioner for Information and Strategy in the State of Osun, Mr Adelani Baderinwa has been called to a report by Punch Newspaper where it was said that the commissioner called a fraction of the 2011/2012 group of pensioners PUBLIC NUISANCE for their incessant protest on the payment of pension and gratuity.
We wish to say that the commissioner did not call and would never call the 2011/2012 group of pensioners PUBLIC NUISANCE, no matter what their action could be. The commissioner did not also threaten the protesting pensioners with arrest as being circulated on the social media.
To set the record straight, what the commissioner respectively said in reaction to the incessant protest of the 2011/2012 group of pensioners was that their actions are unbecoming of senior citizens, particularly when it was obvious that their protests are being sponsored by opposition. The commissioner also said “It is disturbing and unfortunate that the acclaimed 2011/2012 retires have chosen to be blackmailing the Government of the State of Osun, and disturbing peace loving citizens through sponsored protest on the payment of gratuity and not pension. It is crystal clear that the so called 2011/2012 pensioner group are obvious liars with their incessant political protests, and unbecoming of a retire civil servant who ought to be placed and respected as a senior citizen.”
May we state that the commissioner was addressing the conduct of the fraction of 2011/2012 group of pensioners and not the person of the pensioners. Most importantly, the commissioner was not addressing the generality of the pension as the mischief makers are circulating, but a very minute fraction of the 2011/2012 group of pensioners.
We respect the senior citizens as elderly people and contributors to the state development through their services in the public sector and as such would never be disrespectful to them or use uncomplimentary foul languages in addressing them. The Punch headline, we believed it was casted to be controversial just to attract the attention of the readers and generate issues as it is happening.
The attention of the Commissioner for Information and Strategy in the State of Osun, Mr Adelani Baderinwa has been called to a report by Punch Newspaper where it was said that the commissioner called a fraction of the 2011/2012 group of pensioners PUBLIC NUISANCE for their incessant protest on the payment of pension and gratuity.
We wish to say that the commissioner did not call and would never call the 2011/2012 group of pensioners PUBLIC NUISANCE, no matter what their action could be. The commissioner did not also threaten the protesting pensioners with arrest as being circulated on the social media.
To set the record straight, what the commissioner respectively said in reaction to the incessant protest of the 2011/2012 group of pensioners was that their actions are unbecoming of senior citizens, particularly when it was obvious that their protests are being sponsored by opposition. The commissioner also said “It is disturbing and unfortunate that the acclaimed 2011/2012 retires have chosen to be blackmailing the Government of the State of Osun, and disturbing peace loving citizens through sponsored protest on the payment of gratuity and not pension. It is crystal clear that the so called 2011/2012 pensioner group are obvious liars with their incessant political protests, and unbecoming of a retire civil servant who ought to be placed and respected as a senior citizen.”
May we state that the commissioner was addressing the conduct of the fraction of 2011/2012 group of pensioners and not the person of the pensioners. Most importantly, the commissioner was not addressing the generality of the pension as the mischief makers are circulating, but a very minute fraction of the 2011/2012 group of pensioners.
We respect the senior citizens as elderly people and contributors to the state development through their services in the public sector and as such would never be disrespectful to them or use uncomplimentary foul languages in addressing them. The Punch headline, we believed it was casted to be controversial just to attract the attention of the readers and generate issues as it is happening.
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