The senator made the donation at the weekend.
“I fulfilled my vow to give half my wardrobe allowance to widows of my Constituency today. #BenBrucekeepspromises!,” he posted on his Twitter handle, @benmurraybruce
Recall
that earlier this year, the media mogul pledged to donate his wardrobe
allowance to the unpaid workers in Osun state and widows in his
community.
He said his action was
necessitated by the suffering of the workers and their dependants over
the inability of the state government to pay public service workers.
“I, Ben Murray Bruce, will not sit down idly, while my fellow citizens die because salaries have not been paid.
As a first step, I am immediately donating my wardrobe allowance to unpaid workers in Osun state and widows in my Constituency,” he said
He
added that he will publicly handover his allowance to the chairman of
the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC IN Osun state and the head of widows
association in Akasa.
“We are starting in Osun, but we will not end there. I will do as much to help workers who’ve not been paid in other states.
As soon as my wardrobe allowance is paid, I will divide it into two. Half will be publicly given to the NLC Chairman Osun.
The other half will be publicly given to the head of widows association in my community of Akasa.,” he added while enjoining other Nigerians to donate to the workers in Osun and other states of the country, facing similar crisis.
Each
senator is entitled to a wardrobe allowance of N506, 600 per annum
according to the Chairman of Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal
Commission, Engr. Elias Mbam.
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