The governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has linked the current financial crisis rocking several states in the country to the system of government that the nation is practicing.
Aregbesola stated this on the floor of the Osun State House of Assembly during a special sitting organized by the Assembly on Saturday to commemorate the 50th birthday anniversary of the Speaker of the Assembly, Folasayo Nojeem Salaam, noting that Nigeria’s democracy was costly, and contributed to the current financial crisis.
The governor said all the three arms of government, in a bid to operate separately as demanded by the system, were competing and struggling for the resources, which at the end may not be adequate.
It would be recalled that Governor Aregbesola has been under fire for the inability of the Osun State government to the state’s workers, with arrears running into several months. This, the governor attributed to dwindling allocation to the state from the federation account.
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Expensive shit, yimu.
ReplyDeleteShebi he wouldn't have appointed much people to save cost or cut down allowances of political office holders..... He should have several seats jor.
@... which at the end may not be adequate. #Story.
ReplyDeleteHe is still talking abi? Kontinu
ReplyDeleteStory story storeee
ReplyDeleteAregbesola pay what you owe and stop making excuses.
ReplyDeletehe is not the first saying it
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THIS MAN WEY SOPOS DEY PRISON BY NOW STILL DEY TALK...OLEE
ReplyDeleteWonders shall never end.
ReplyDeleteOgbeni Rauf still has no shame in making such statements.. His excuse for owing the state workers 8 months salary is ridiculous.
Aregbesola should just close his motor mouth! Shameless Gov, still can't fathom why Osun people will even vote for this uncivilized man!
ReplyDeleteHe has used the state fund for Election.
ReplyDeleteI think the governor failed his people, what's happening with state government is too much oil money dependency. A governor that can't not create alternative means of making money, same governor will support creation of new states when old states can't pay workers.
ReplyDeleteOur democracy is too expensive even at the federal level is worst the cost of governance in Nigeria is too high. We need to abolish the office of the senate because they are irrelevant/waste of resources, they never pass any law that directly impact the lives of Citizens. The ridiculous amount spent supporting their lifestyle can be channeled into youth development and job creation. They are only after their bogus salaries/allowance/title "I am Senator", we can't continue to run American system of government as a poor country as we can not maintain such system of government.
We were colonised by British, then stole America model of leadership that we can't adapt to. I think the best thing is to drop American legislative system and keep UK one legislative system.
Abolish senate and keep House of Representatives,cut their salaries to 6-8M per annum as 99.9% of them are already rich. They are greedy individuals and their greed won't allow them to work for the good of the country without exuberant salary. Government should offer small allowance for car fuelling and other small allowances if those bunch of thieves in the house truly love our country. If we continue the same fashion we are going, we can never develop our country with status quo because Nigeria is about to collapse if government do not recover looted fund and close lope holes.
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DeleteYou have spoken well dear and with great intelligence too. Nigeria adopting the federal kind of government is actually because of the nature of our state. We are so many and diverse, over 170 million people with about 500 different tongues. The only way to have full representation of the people in government in to adopt what we are presently practicing. Without this, there will be fear of ethnic marginalization, poor representation of the people in government and suppression just like what is happening to the Igbo Nation because they haven't been able to produce a president since 1966 being a major ethnic group with a population of about 30-40 million.
DeleteCorruption and mediocrity are our problem in Nigeria not the system-there is absolutely nothing wrong with our system of government.
I believe one day a generation shall rise against injustices, corruption, mediocrity, and all forms of bad governance.
GOD BLESS NIGERIA.
Pay us our state allowance and stop talking trash
ReplyDeleteIs he not part of those practicing the so called 'expensive democracy'?! Why not allow the change from the norm of maladministration start from 'Osun'? All these rogues gettin me annoyed on a Sunday...
ReplyDeleteThis man is saying rubbish
ReplyDeletePay your state workers their salary
Idiot talking
ReplyDeleteAregbe settle your workers before talking abt how expensive our democracy reallyb is.
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