The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that each time Governor Rauf Aregbesola organizes free train services to transport people to the state during festivities, a sum of N100 million goes to a private account.
The PDP in a statement issued in Osogbo, on Wednesday, by Prince Diran Odeyemi, its spokesperson said "it is curious that a struggling government that has failed to meet its statutory obligations of paying workers salary would without bating eyelids, announce free train from Lagos to Osun as done now to mark Eid El Fitri."
According to the party, "just last year December, during year 2016 budget defence at the floor of Osun State House of Assembly, a director in the state Civil Service openly confessed that about N130 million was spent on free train in December that year alone".
It then urged the rest of the country and the federal government to see what it called "hypocrisy, pettiness and fraud that has been going on in Osun State, and prevail on Governor Aregbesola to desist from acts that could further sink the state deeper in the financial quagmire he led it into".
The statement also reads: "What could be the interest of Mr. Aregbesola to, rather than pay workers' full salary, be spending huge sums of money on those coming to the state to celebrate Eid El Fitri and leave the state after 3 days holiday?
"Of what economic importance are those that would rely on free train to come to the state for festivals be for its economy? Who does Ogbeni want to please with the programme that is largely resources-draining with no positive economic effect?
"We have it on good authority that each time such "freebies" is declared, N100 million is paid into a private account. Osun has been raped into coma already, feeding its carcass to the god that eats only money should be prevented by all stakeholders.
"For government that is cringing under huge financial burden to continue its spendthrift style in the face of lean resources is a solid confirmation of our claims that wrong people are at the helms of affairs of the state at the moment."
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