From Adekunle Jimoh, Ilorin
Supervising Pastor of the Cherubim and Seraphim church worldwide Moses Popoola has cautioned governments at all levels against slashing of workers salaries in the country as a result of COVID-19 disease.
Pastor Popoola said that it “will be inhuman to cut the salaries of civil servants in the aftermath of the pandemic.”
The clergyman told reporters in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital at the sideline of the distribution of relief materials to no fewer than 30,000 households by the church foundation.
Said he: “Governnents can cut the salaries of political appointees because they earn fat salaries that are 100 percent higher than those of the civil servants. Many states have not even started paying for the N30,000 minimum wage. What I am saying is that governnent should even look at the way of adding to the salaries of civil servants for two months after COVID-19.
“What we have in our hands is that after COVID-19 pandemic corruption will be on the increase as many of the civil servants who live on loans and cooperative will be tempted to steal from government coffers.
“While thinking about the masses in town government should find a way of making the civil servants happy.”
Pastor Popoola, who is also the Executive Secretary of Oluwole Foundation in the church said the foundation had spent over N100 million on relief materials for members of the church, market women and Muslims community to cushion the effect of COVID-19.
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He said: “Because of the lockdown in the country the foundation has gone ahead to give palliative materials to members of our church and the larger community of Ilorin.
What we have given out are 10kg of rice and 5kg of semovita to each of the beneficiaries with additional N500 as transportation fee. That is the second phase of the palliative.
“At the commencement of the lockdown in the state, the foundation gave out a sum of N5,000 each to 3,000 people. The extension of the lockdown necessitated the second phase of the palliative measures.
“My advice to religious leaders and organisations is that this is the pay back time for the members and adherent. Therefore, I urge politicians, well-to-do in the society, captains of industries to find a way of assisting the needy in our midst to complement what the government is doing.”
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