Kogi State Government has commended the state House of Assembly for its speedy passage of a N20 billion bond bill. The Special Adviser to the governor on Media and Strategy, Mr. Jacob Edi, gave the commendation yesterday against the backdrop of insinuations from the opposition parties over the intention of the government concerning the bond. Edi said the essence of the bond was to provide dividends of democracy to the people.
The special adviser also condemned the statement credited to the state Interim Chairman of the yet-to-be registered All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. Goodman Akwu, on the bond issue. He accused Akwu of trying to mislead the good people of the state.
Edi disclosed that the N20 billion bond was a well thought out packaged that would cater for all the sectors of the economy of the state. He said Governor Idris Wada whose personality, because of his remarkable antecedent in the past, could even serve as collateral, ought to have been commended rather than being vilified as done by the opposition parties in the state.
The governor’s aide stressed that the bill, which gave teeth to the bond, went through proper scrutiny at the Assembly populated by eminent indigenes of the state.
He disclosed that a public hearing was also held before the bill was passed into law. Edi, therefore, wondered what might have necessitated the hues and cry from the APC which, he said, had enough problems on its hands. He explained that the Wada administration was working towards total economic redemption of the state through the provision of the needed social and economic infrastructure for the people.
Earlier, the Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker of the Assembly, Mr. Austin Akubo, disclosed that the bill had “what it takes to assist the transformation agenda of the government”. Akubo, therefore, called on the opposition parties not to throw the state into anarchy through false alarm. The CPS also urged the people to ignore the opposition parties, who he said were making frantic efforts to distract the Wada administration.
