Management, Planning and control told us that if we plan nicely, we will reap the benefits of our work and if we plan wrongly, we will fail which means first thing first. Again in life there are so many things we are doing that should not have been done at a particular point in time most especially as leaders and when we are elected to lead the people, it is because the people themselves who voted us to power have confidence in us to direct them nicely but in Nigeria the issue is different. Most people went into politics with different agenda most probably to enrich themselves and their families, some create all sorts of avenues to embezzle public funds by creating contract opportunities to suit their selfish purposes since they can not easily deep their hands into the treasury of the country as usual to take money. Now what Viewers Corner News and the advisory team is trying to express here is that for governor Fayose of Ekiti state to have earmarked 1.9 billion Naira for an office complex is uncalled for and not proper at this particular period. This is a whole lot of money that can go a long way in creating better facilities for the people of Ekiti state, we (Viewers Corner News team) regard this as economic waste. Perhaps out of this huge amount of money budgeted for this project, lots of manipulations may have happened as usual. This is a state that is broke and can not even pay workers’ salaries regularly but wants to build a government office complex for 1.9 billion in Ekiti state, Pensioners’ allowances are not paid properly which is too bad. This is not the best time for such project and with such huge amount of money (1.9 billion Naira), Ekiti state government can put lots of people back to work and at the same time create more viable projects that would bring benefits to the state instead of spending the huge amount of money (1.9 billion Naira) on just building an office complex in the state, this is not right for now. Again there is nothing wrong building a government house with such huge amount of money but what we are saying is that the time is not right for such project, the country is in recession, Ekiti state has lots of unemployed people, salaries of workers are not properly paid, senior citizens of Ekiti state (Pensioners) are being owed their allowances for years and now governor Fayose wants to build a government housing complex, this is not right. Please think of the people who voted for you to become the governor of Ekiti state, they should come first before building an office complex. We say so because our assessment of your current government house in Ado Ekiti is beautiful and very good for now therefore in our opinion, you do not need another new one until when the time is right to do so. Let the 1.9 billion Naira which you (governor Fayose) earmarked for this project go to the people of Ekiti state, please pay workers’ their salaries, pay the senior (Pensioners) citizens their allowances and create other facilities that would bring benefits to the people of Ekiti state. This is what we expect you as a governor to do for now.
We (Viewers Corner News and the advisory team) are concerned citizens of the world and would always give advice when it is necessary to do so.
Source: Viewers Corner News.