Isoko youth, Josiah Omenuwoma, who rejected the SA position from Governor Ifeanyi A. Okowa, has received One Million, Nine Hundred Thousand Naira from his kinsmen living overseas.
A post on social media by Don Victorio, the donation to Omenuwoma state that this was made by a group of Isoko professionals abroad for the act, adding that the same amount is what Okowa would have paid him for the 10 months if he had accepted the appointment.
Newsmen authoritatively confirmed that the donation was
“for his rare act of standing by his convictions in the face of the allure of appointment and filthy lucre,” saying that they spread all over the world in Canada, the U.S, the U.K and in Nigeria.
Adding that:
“they are pained by the anguish and agony that leadership failure at the various tiers of government is afflicting on their people back home in Isoko.”
Their post continued:
“We are also pained that in recent times, the Isoko man who was once known for standing firm by his convictions even in the face of hunger and death is now known in the political circles as people who can easily be bought over by appointments or other pecuniary considerations
“The implication of this is that people in government no longer take the average Isokoman seriously because of the belief that on the eve of elections, various forms of carrots can be dangled in our faces and the average Isoko politician will forget the many years of abandonment of the Isoko nation by those in government and grasp those carrots which most times turns out to be Greek gifts.
“We are further alarmed that this trend of being incapable to stand firm for one’s convictions is fast dripping down from our established political leaders into the youths to the extent that once a political appointment is dangled in the face, they abandon all the values, ideals and principles that they have been known for.
“It is in the light of these that we, a small group of Isoko Professionals all over the world have come together to Reward you, Mr Josiah OMENUWOMA with the sum of ONE MILLION, NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND NAIRA ONLY (N1,900,000.00) being almost the total sum AFTER TAX you would have received for the 10 months you would have served in the Delta State Government.”