Palliatives: Oborevwori Hailed for Increasing Workers’ Salaries, Reducing Working Days

Sylvester Idowu in Warri

A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Delta State gubernatorial candidate, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has lauded the State Governor, Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori’s lofty implementation of the N5 billion allocated to each state of the federation.

In implementing the palliatives for which the money was meant for, Onuesoke noted that the increment of Delta State workers’ salaries and reduction of working days to ameliorate hardship of the workers in the state was a policy well thought out.

Oborevwori, in attempt to reduce the hardship  of the fuel increase on Delta State workers, has  not only announced the increase of workers’ salaries in the state, but has equally reduced their days of working so as to cushion the  hardship on them.

Reacting to Oborevwori’s action, Onuesoke, who addressed journalists  yesterday in Asaba described the governor   as a listening  leader  who has the feelings of  Delta State workers at heart and has vowed to  run a pro-workers welfare government.

According to the PDP chieftain, the Governor, even, as Speaker of  Delta State House of Assembly, has always implemented laws  towards the welfare of staff of the Assembly in particular and the state in general.

He stated that when some other states were still contemplating on how best to resolve the hardship created by the fuel subsidy removal, Oborevwori has  gone ahead to implement a robust palliative agenda for the state workers.

The PDP chieftain equally commended the governor for including the vulnerable in the society,and market women in the palliative agenda and urged those not in the aforementioned bracket to exercise patience while government works out something for them.

Onuesoke also applauded the governor on the extension of the palliative to local government workers  and the directives to recruits two thousand workers for  primary schools across the state.

This gesture, according to Onuesoke, is a major boost to the rising unemployment rate in the state and will address inadequacy of teaching and non-teaching staff in the state.