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“The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonourably, foolishly, viciously“ – Julian Barnes.
Mr. President, it is with the above declarations in mind that I am calling on your Excellency to save us from the presidency-appointed governor of Kogi State. Sorry, I mean to say the elected Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello.
This call has become imperative and exigent owing to the foculess and directionless approach to governance by the governor of Kogi State and his retinue of “New Direction” team.
Ag. President Sir, today Kogi is worse off under Bello’s administration; one can only imagine and wonder the real direction in this “new direction” of the Yahaya Bello-led Government, especially when you consider the billions of naira that had been released to his administration and the non payment of workers’ salaries for more than 12 months.
Schools are been closed for over four months, due to the ongoing strike action embarked upon by workers of all the tertiary institutions in Kogi State.
If it could take the governor, an accountant by profession, a year to conclude the staff verification exercise in just 21 local government areas of the state, and yet the people couldn’t receive their pay, something is either wrong with him or he is wrong with something.
The people of Kogi State, especially the workers, are having hard times to survive due to the non payment of salaries of workers and retirees.
This is becoming increasingly unbearable and most of them are dying because there was no way they could take care of themselves despite serving the state dedicatedly and dutifully.
If non payment of salaries and arresting of critics is what the Kogi State government meant by his “New Direction” agenda then it’s a direction to nowhere and I urge you to call the governor to order because this new direction has brought agonies, pains and death to the good people of Kogi state and in all honesty the new direction is a road to Golgotha which needs urgent redirection to relieve the people of the state from the suffering and pains they are currently going through under the “White lion” in Lugard’s house.
Ag. President sir, there is no better time to save the good people of Kogi State from the harsh situation than now.
Though “The truth is inconvertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it but in the end there it is” — with due respect to Winston Churchill.
May God continue to bless Kogi State and the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
– Sheyi Babaeko is a social commentator, policy analyst and counter-terrorist strategist.
He writes in from Leeds, UK.
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