BELLO SEEKS UNDUE FAVOUR CONFERS 79 AWARDS ON KOGITES -Concern Kogi Youths
The outgoing Governor of Kogi State ,Alh Yahaya Bello is seeking undue favour from Kogi State leaders by conferring over seventy nine awards to past political office holders and traditional rulers.
The November 2023 election litigation is currently hunting the outgoing Governor hence the clever way to confer awards on some selected Kogi leaders whom he believed could be of help in the ongoing Kogi electoral litigations.
Bello however fails to understand that his I’ll treatment on the rights of the teachers, local government workers, pensioners, traditional rulers in the state among others will continue to hunt him for life.
The conferment of the awards is not for his love for the recipient but attention seeking.
The residents of lokoja have been living without portable water for the past three years and all attempt for government to look into the issues has hit the rock as that may not be the direction of his thinking as all he cares is where to plunder the peoples resources for his personal gain.
As we speak ,the pains and agony of kogi workers and pensioners are unbearable as the various form of screening since the inception of the outgoing administration resulted in a number of deaths of Kogi citizens.
At the moment pensioners are once again invited for another round of screening through their various banks within the state. This is too bad.
Ordinarily we should have restrained from making comments over the charade called awards but the general public must know especially the recipient of the Award and their representatives that ,all is not well with kogi state as the dreams of our founding fathers has gone into oblivion going by the recent happening were unity has been sacrificed on the alter of political personal greed .
To be candid, this is not what the state needs at the moment as this is one of many of his styles to divert state resources for a cover up as the state of insecurity at the moment calls for concerns as thugs have taken full control of the state as a serving senator and some members of the National Assembly were attacked in government house during a new year parley with the governor.
Only recently a tribunal secretary was attacked in Lokoja and no single arrest or prosecution of the so called thugs was made.
We call on the state government to invest the money meant for the award on security as kogites are living in fears of unknown gun men in the state as the primary responsibility of government is seeing to be failing and urgent need to arrest the situation.
As we speak ,the pains and agony of kogi workers and pensioners are not something to write home about as there have been Involved in one form of screening or the other since the inception of the outgoing administration till date which countless numbers of the citizens died in the process and its ongoing as pensioners are once again invited for another round of screening through their various banks within the state.
We could have restrained from making comments over the charade award ,but to let the general public know must especially the recipient of the Award and their representatives that ,all is not well with kogi state as the dreams of our founding fathers has gone into oblivuim going by the recent happening were unity has been sacrificed on the altar of political consideration among others.
To be candid, this is not what the state needs at the moment as this is one of many of his styles to divert state resources for a cover up as the state of insecurity at the moment calls for concerns as thugs have taken full control of the state as a serving senator and some members of the National Assembly were attacked in government house after a new year .
parley with the governor and also , a tribunal secretary was equally attacked some weeks ago and no single arrest or persecution of the so called thugs , who told you ur safety is guarantee after listening to all the above ??
We called on the state government to invest the money meant for the award on security as kogites are living in fears of unknown gun men in the state as the primary responsibility of government is seen to be failing and there is urgent need to arrest the situation.
At the moment Kogi state is passing through the most difficult time in the history of the state .
The sudden love for the dead and the living for an award calls for great concerns most especially as we are in transition period.
Comrade Samuel Onimisi
Abuja