Ondo State Afforestation Project Lisagbede,
Odigbo Local Government
Ore, Ondo State
14th, June 2024
His Excellency, ;
Hon. Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa
Executive Governor
Ondo State
Alagbaka, Akure.
RE: SAVE OUR SOULS, WE ARE DYING OF 28 UNPAID MONTHS BACKLOG OUTSTANDING SALARIES ARREARS AND REDUNDANCY
Your Excelency, we humbly wish to invite your passionate urgent attention to our plight of backlog salary arrears of 28 months owned the disengaged workers of Ondo State Afforestation Project in Ondo South Senatorial District, Lisagbede Ore.
Several “Save our Soul” (SOS) letters was written to former Governor Late Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu when he was the Governor of Ondo State and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry concerning our backlog salary arrears of 28 months owned us by the State Government uptill now no positive result was achieved.
In 2017 Ondo State Government signed conceesion Agreement on sustainable Forestry management & exploitation of Ondo State Afforestation Project with investor West Africa Forest plantation Limited (WAFPL).
Our appointment was terminated and we were all disengaged from the service without payment of 28 months backlog salary arrears owned us by the State Government. In 2021 the State Government also signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with another Investor named Rex Forestry Limited (RFI).
Also in August, 2022, the State Government appointed some members of committee for sale of unserviceable items including the Ministry officials, we disagreed on sale of unserviceable item, they promised us that the backlog of outstanding salaries would be included in 2023 Appropriate Budget, as at today we are writing this leter no positive thing have been done by the Ministry. As a law abiding citizen, we believe in the Caring Heart of this Present Administration, we do not believe in putting law into our Hand before we could press for our right.
Your Excellency, as a matter of fact Ten (10) of us have died as result of joblessness and psychological trauma of working so hard for Twenty Eight months without being paid, for us alive, our living condition has
if deterorated and worsened, we are in disarray we cannot meet up with the most basic obligation and necessities of life. Majority of us were on Ten Thousand Naira (®410,000.00) monthly salaries.
The details of all inherited outstanding arrears own disengaged staff
spanning 2013— 2017 are as Stated in the table below:
Year MONTHS
2013 July - December
2015 October - December
2016 January - December
2017 July - December
NO OF Workers. Outstanding Amount
67. N4, 997, 419.74
61. N2, 235, 000.00
55. N7, 867, 500.00
53. N3, 852, 500
Grand Total. N18, 952, 419.74
The grand total of the money owned us is Eighteen Million, Nine Hundred and Fifty Two Thousand, Four Hundred and Ninetcen Niara, Seventy Four kobo (N18,952,419.74)
Your Excellency, we are appeal and begging you to please bail us out of this our predicament and save our soul from untimely dead.
Thank you sir.
Signed by the representative of disengaged staff.
E-signed
Afolabi Gabriel
08033681785
Ajile Busuyi F.
08165075296
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