When basic tenet governance elude a governor and his cabinet, it becomes a thing of great political and administrative danger to the people, their entire or collective quest for sustainable development and the quest for that same government to be responsive, representative and respected.
The administration of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State is not just a threat, but habour a potential administrative danger that is waiting to explode in few mouths to come.
Call this administration a political terrorist, or ‘Evans personality’ tinted administration, you will not be far away for it. An administration that has kidnapped the collective developmental destiny of the poor and downtrodden in the state, ushering in the era of great humanitarian crises which is about to be witnessed if proper administrative and economic palliatives are not put in place.
The sequence of hunger, poverty and infrastructural and socio-economic collapse anchored on the basis that vital socio-economic fabrics of the state like the agricultural, educational, transportation etc has been neglected and most especially a dis-articulation in the state civil service structure, where civil servant salaries now become a privilege and conveniently paid on social media platform rather than the bank accounts of industrious workers.
If not for a state been govern on the basis of misplaced priority, how could a state where poverty, hunger and disease, non-payment of salaries for up 15 months comfortably use over 12 million Naira for newspaper advertorial in reaction to a mere statement made by a Senator from another senatorial district and state? Just imagine if that 12 million naira is been converted to the construction of bore hole or link road in my village, Ikanepo in Ankpa or any other village in the state!
In fact, the government has wasted more money, time and energy in the recall process of Senator Dino Melaye than in government and governance of the state. What baffles me and many others is what good has the recall process brought to the masses and governance in Kogi state that the government is investing heavily in it?
This is an administration that prioritize political vendetta and quest for political victory in 2019/2020 than providing basic basic dividend to the people of the state who are now comfortably adjudged as metaphor for hunger, poverty and victims of perpetual maladministration.
Just as I said earlier and will continue to say, basic tenets of governance has eluded this administration. An administration that has thrown away the basic ideology of comparative cost analysis, cost benefit analysis and cost effectiveness analysis, an administration that has introduced technical sectional, tribal policies and programme into the state, lost grip of the vital sectors of the state economy like agriculture health, education, transportation and rural development. They now romance lies, fraud and propaganda as a tool of governance rather than performance and practical realities seen on ground. Most worrisome is the dependence on bailout funds and refunds before salaries and other development ventures can be undertaken in the state. Now that their are no more bailouts or refunds coming, I wonder what will be the fate of the workers, pensioners and other ventures in the state.
A government that doesn’t know the numbers of local governments that made up a senatorial district in his state. Hmmmm, we are in an era of great intellectual and administrative disaster in the state.
In a nutshell, the administration of Yahaya Bello is an administration that ought not to have been in the first place, but it was imposed on the people – a rape on the basic principle of electoral democracy. A government without the legitimacy of the people, which has now turn to be a composite failure to the collective development of the polity called Kogi state.
My advice is simple to all Kogites; Go and get your PVCs ready! We are the people, and people are democracy. Our mandate determines who should rule us, no more undemocratic imposition on our collective political destinies.
– Sam Enemama Akubo
