Following seven months of unpaid salaries the Christian Association of Nigeria has appealed to church leaders in Osun State to donate food and finance to the cushioned the hardship of the State’s civil servants.
The CAN Chairman in the state, Rev. Elisha Ogundiya, made this disclosure while fielding questions from reporters in Osogbo yesterday after meeting with the executive committee of CAN in the state.
Ogundiya urged the church to go beyond feeding their congregations with spiritual food as the condition of the civil servants need physical foods to help in passing through this hard time.
He stated,” I talked about Christians and Muslims and others who are passing through hardship in Osun State because of the nonpayment of their salaries for months.
“Workers are passing through hardship and some who have retired have died because of lack of money to take care of themselves. We Christians have to emulate the action of the good Samaritan in the Bible who assisted somebody he should not assist ordinarily. So, we should assist our brothers and sisters.”
It be recalled that Osun State civil servants are owned six months salaries by Governor Rauf Aregbesola led- administration making the workers to pass through very hard time.
