Sunday, 30 March 2014

THESE ABSURDITIES CALLED PERFORMANCE - 1



It has been said that “when real initiatives are not present, politicians result to absurdities.” It is a common practice that when an individual has been long in an ailment, any drug brought to such is quickly taken with the highest hope of getting relieves from such. It is also not uncommon that when an individual has been hard hit by poverty, the least monetary note or even coin given comes as a saviour even if such can not provide one decent meal. Likewise, when a people had witnessed years of deprivation and impoverishments, their rights are quickly turned to privileges by any unthinking moron-turned hero.

By the way, I think the problem with governance really is the fact that governance is being reduced to the level of politics. The people in government need to know that governance is service. Governance is not gerrymandering. Politics should stop as soon as elections are won, and the elected need to busy themselves with services to the electorate (within and outside their parties). Invariably, it is the service or lack of it that will determine whether the people in power deserved to continue in power or whether they should be changed.

The above scenarios are not untrue of the past thirty-nine months of Dr. John Kayode Fayemi’s administration in Ekiti State. They have been months of intelligentsia absurdities by which the Doctor of war and his team have repeatedly insulted the intelligence of the people of the “Fountain of Wisdom.” Painfully, these affronts have gone unchallenged by the people of the state. Let us look at each of these absurdities, one after the other, that ignorant people celebrate as achievements, most of which were designed to hoodwink the populace.

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EMPLOYMENT
The outgoing administration boasts of having created thirty-eight thousand employment opportunities since its inception. The question is: what sort of employments? How gainful, reliable and dependable are the said employments? It is unfortunate that in a state that boasts of the best brains among the most populous African nation, Nigeria, an executive will make people redundant, whilst paying them, and call that employment.

What we have seen so far is duplicity of the Federal government establishments such the Traffic wardens (popularly known in Ekiti state as “Dagrin”), the Nigerian Police Force, and so on. Graduates who are engaged by the state government to control traffics and those enlisted into their “Peace Corps”, an unrecognized replica of the Nigerian Police, are being paid #10,000 a month. It must be on record that none of the said employments have any securities because (1) they have not been gazette by the state government and (2) none of the "employed" has been given any letter of appointment; hence, any successive government can easily do away with them. 

These were perfectly done while the state government converted the age-long Textile Industry into lock-up shops, most of which are not being presently used by anybody. Conversely, if the thinking of the government had been right, and the Textile Industry revived, it could have employed close to three thousand graduates if not more. Governor Aregbesola of the state of Osun never inherited any Textile Industry, but today, Osun has a functional garment factory that has absorbed about three thousand of their unemployed youths. Let me add that the Osun garment factory was coincidentally commissioned on the day Dr. Fayemi of Ekiti state distributed vehicles worth over One Billion naira (#1Bn) to Obas (traditional rulers) in Ekiti state while the youth remained unemployed or at best, frivolously employed.

Let it be known that this is the first government in Ekiti state that collected one thousand naira (#1,000) from her unemployed youths in order to employ them into the Civil service. It must be noted that out of almost eight thousand (8,000) eligible applicants, only seven hundred and fifty (750) were called for oral interview. As at the time this piece is being written, none has been given the said employment.

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ROAD CONSTRUCTION
Much of the noise of this administration has been about roads. It needs to be clarified that these roads are just being re-surfaced by this administration. It must be said that Fayemi’s administration, since inception, has not constructed any road in Ekiti State (save a 1.2 km road from Old garage through Ojumose to Atikankan in Ado Ekiti). All the roads being deceitfully exhibited on television stations by Fayemi and his cronies are roads constructed by the duo of Ayo Fayose and Segun Oni’s administrations respectively. In fact, the credit of opening up Ekiti state in terms of road projects must go to Ayo Fayose. It is not wrong to build on past administration’s achievements because government is continuous. However, it becomes an absurd when other people’s achievements are over-flogged as one’s. All the dual carriages within Ado Ekiti, the state capital were constructed by the Ayo Fayose’s administration.

Part of the absurdities is the Oye – Otun road - as a case study. No part of the road which is being celebrated by Mr. Governor and his boys has a sustainable drainage system save the few meters’ drainage within Iye; even, Isan, the governor’s town has no drainage, and sound is taking over parts of the road; thereby causing accidents. While I will not mention that the narrow bridge over River Ero (just after Ikun) was left unattended to, some parts of this road are already sinking (just three years on), and the part left undone at the boundary of Oye and Ilejemeje local governments has become the den of armed robbers. Apart from this boundary between Oye and Ilejemeje local governments, a very good part of the road remain as they were before Fayemi’s administration. I implore the public to travel through the road for more instructions.

Still on road construction, questions need to be asked on how much was expended on how many kilometers of road. A situation whereby, for example, a 1.2 kilometer road costs over a billion naira is highly questionable. It must be borne in mind that what we are looking at is road resurfacing, not construction.

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To be continued tomorrow. . . 

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