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Also, the Governor has assured the workers in Egor Local Government Area, which was omitted from the recent bailout for other Local Governments in the state, that their arrears will be paid this week

The Governor, who noted that Edo State meets her wage obligation to workers monthly, challenged top-level public servants in the state to look inwards to ensure the state continues to initiate and execute fresh capital projects in addition to completing ongoing ones and meeting basic recurrent expenditures, in spite of the dwindling resources from the federation account

This is coming almost a year after the Federal Government promised automatic employment to those injured in the exercise and three employment slots to families of those who lost their loved ones in the recruitment fiasco

Speaking at two mega rallies of the All Progressives Congress held in Auchi, Edo North and Irrua in Edo Central on Friday, Oshiomhole said when the PDP took the reins of governance in 1999, the country had 774 Local Government Areas, but as we speak, close to 30 of those local government areas are being controlled by insurgents

In a letter to the General Manager of ITV, owned by Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, the Special Adviser to Governor Adams Oshiomhole, Prince Kassim Afegbua, said: “You will recall our earlier discussion with you on the series of fabricated and adversarial reportage of issues in the state which has continued to misinform, misrepresent and confuse the people of the State

“However because they believed they do not have any chance of being re-elected in February next year, because they have either done two terms or because of their poor performance, they know their constituency will not re-nominate them, they now decided to benefit from the desperation in different parts of the country to sell their mandate for N50 million each, collect advance payment of thirty-five million. When I read this in the newspapers, initially, I didn’t believe. But going round, people tell me they are buying new vehicles, others are rebuilding their hotels. Suddenly money is flowing