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wealth123:
is this toks or REG?

There is no way this car is tokunbo, it's certainly ed.

jmaine:


I have always been an anti- Buharist , let's just say we are on the same page here . . . . . .

Lol,.....lo batan!!!

dunsman:
Lobatan, fayose my hero!!!

It's an anomaly and so unfortunate that Ayodele Fayose (who is at best a tout, a rouble ro, and a slowpoke politically) is called 'Dr' same as Kayode Fayemi who has a PhD.
It's high time the government of the day abolishes the award and use of honorary doctorates. To earn a university degree, a student is said to have been found worthy in learning and character,......then how come these same citadels of learning dash out honorary doctorates to every dick and harry scum of the earth money bag in Naija?
Buhari's government should do us a favour in this country by putting a stop to this......

enitiObanke:


Thank you,..... I just needed to be sure.
I am a Buhari's to d core (I have always been, from 2003),.....but my follow-follow nah with open eye.
Perhaps we belong to d same school of thought?

.... I meant a Buharist to d core

jmaine:


Dude, I was lucid enough. My post referred to the Garba Shehus and Adesina Femis of this world. . . .

Thank you,..... I just needed to be sure.
I am a Buhari's to d core (I have always been, from 2003),.....but my follow-follow nah with open eye.
Perhaps we belong to d same school of thought?

jmaine:


I did this ages ago already and woe betide any mastvbating zombie who attempts to insult our sensibilities by penning silly articles to twist the obvious.

Even Buhari body language and integrity suffice for such hacks . . . .

Guy, do mean this article is silly or you mean the occasional silly antics of Garba Shehu and Adesina Femi? Abeg I a need clarification asap!

Chapter one of the integrity story is easy to . We had become a society of zero consequences for actions injurious to the body politic. Nothing happened if Nigerians died on your watch; nothing happened to Abba Moro. Absolutely nothing happened if you stole. In fact, the man who was supposed to set the course of national ethics and morality instituted a national debate on the finer distinctions between stealing and corruption and unleashed his ers all over social media to split hairs between the two. That was just before he blamed yams for not doing enough to avoid the mouth of goats.[/i]
[i]If you want to gauge just how low we sunk, just how dirty we became, you need not look further than Ibrahim Lamorde, the difficult-to-decipher fellow running the EFCC. During the Jonathan era, Lamorde’s idea of fighting corruption was to roam around Nigeria, looking for anybody who stole five thousand naira or less. The best way to escape his purview was to steal millions. That conferred immunity and untouchability on you. When Lamorde got tired of running after kindergarten pickpockets, he started to harass fishermen for fishing without authorization in violation of the constitution.
I am not joking o. In case you have forgotten, on 24 September 2014, the EFCC arraigned six fishermen - Adekunle Oshingbosi, Momodu Ibrahim, Idowu Tuesday, Togbosi Christian, Benjamin Eyinle, and Anthony Medoho before a Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly fishing in unauthorized waters. According to the EFCC, the men were arrested on March 27th 2014 for fishing in Nigerian territorial waters without getting authorized approval, thereby violating Sections 1(1) (2) of the Seas Fishery Act Cap S4, 2004.
It is easy to surmise from the foregoing that had Nigerians not awarded a red card to President Jonathan, Lamorde would by now be harassing roadside mechanics and “forganaizers” all over the country for practicing without a license, contrary to some sections of the Constitution. As for the IC, the least said the better. She completely disappeared. I must confess there were times during the Jonathan era when I would have been unable to tell you the full meaning of IC because she was so dormant, inert, and invisible: totally useless and redundant.
Now, Lamorde is back in the big league, barking and threatening to bite; IC too is staking a serious claim to national attention as a player in the emergent anti-corruption atmosphere. NNPC and other institutions of state are feeling a shake-up. The other day in Ogun state, a civil servant who’d been stealing millions from secondary schools was apprehended. Something’s in the air and people have been hard put to name it beyond abstraction.
Actually, what is happening to the Nigerian body politic, albeit with considerable room for improvement, is not too difficult to name: it is the stirrings of a possible return to the fear of consequences. It is what we said would happen if only there was a modicum of integrity at the very top. We were coming from a place in the darkest pit of hell where the notion of consequence, the notion that punishment is the logical, natural, juridical, moral, and ethical outcome of stealing, had completely disappeared from our lives. That notion is returning – ever so gradually, ever so imperfectly - and that is what is responsible for noticeable changes in the system. And for the perceptible difference in the air you are breathing right now in Nigeria.
This auspicious first chapter of Buhari’s integrity narrative presents two problems. First is the fact that people are mistaking the start of the journey for the end of the journey. People are behaving like we are at the mountain top already. The point must be made and repeated: we are still in the darkest pit of hell and have only just begun the arduous crawl out of it. We are not even at the bottom of the mountain yet, let alone start the hard climb to the mountain top. What Buhari’s integrity narrative has done is to jumpstart the first step out of the pit by reintroducing the elementary fear of consequence into our badly battered national psyche. It is only when we get out of the pit that we can approach the bottom of the mountain to start climbing.
The second problem is that the incipient positive results of the integrity narrative has become a sufficient excuse for heightened intolerance of any scrutiny of President Buhari’s pace. Some will even hound and harass people with genuine and legitimate concerns about aspects of Buhari’s leadership style because “it is still too early to start criticizing and distracting the President.” Well, the very day a man becomes my President is the day he starts to owe me explanations. This school of thought will destroy Buhari if he gets carried away by their theory that he is omnipresent and omnipotent, his integrity narrative the be-all, singular open sesame to paradise for Nigeria. I will not dwell on this beyond repeating what I have already stated in multiple fora: those looking for a President who must not be vigorously engaged, scrutinized, and criticized must crossover to the ranks of the career Jonathanians who brooked no criticism of the former President and destroyed him with the most disgusting halleluiah followership I have ever seen in Africa. President Buhari will not – and must not – be rewarded with this sort of followership.
This brings me to the second chapter of the integrity story. The first chapter is about the aura and personal capital of President Buhari which we sold as capable of bringing back the fear and notion of consequence into the system. That side of things is working – albeit in a sole ship format that is worrisome. We have been told to wait till September. We are waiting. The second chapter has to do with the word of a man of integrity. I am still studying the outlines of this second chapter. I don’t know where President Buhari intends to go with the idea of his word as his bond so I am just going to point out two early disquieting things he needs to bear in mind as we all struggle to help him return credibility to our system and country.
A leader’s word is a key part of the business of integrity. It is pretty straightforward. Nothing complicated about it at all. Where a leader tells the people that they will find osaka, they must not get there and find osoko; where a leader tells the people that they will find osoko, they must not get there and find osaka. President Buhari’s word must remain an integral part of the narrative of integrity. Something as simple as a promise made openly and nationally to publicly declare his assets is becoming something of an osaka-osoko story and I don’t like it at all. [/i]One had been prepared to even overlook this asset declaration matter in the context of the bigger gains we are witnessing on the anti-corruption front only for Femi Adesina to return it to national discourse in an arrogant and dishonest manner.
[i]In a recent interview with Kayode Ogundamisi, Femi Adesina claims that President Buhari did not promise to declare his assets publicly; it was the APC that made the promise! This is a lie. Like Nuhu Ribadu, who abused Goodluck Jonathan and Patience Jonathan, and later ridiculed himself by struggling to claim that he never said any such thing, Femi Adesina appears to have forgotten Google! Candidate Buhari did not only pledge to “publicly declare my assets and liabilities”, he did so in a document he entitled, “My Covenant with Nigerians”. I advise every Nigerian to Google and keep a copy of President Buhari’s covenant if this is the way his media team intends to play the game. A covenant is an even more serious business than a promise or a pledge. Neither the APC nor the Nigerian people forced President Buhari to make this covenant. He did it of his own volition. But it is now his word. It must be his bond.
President Buhari may also want to look into a curious office that is not recognized by the Constitution but is however functioning – and gaining visibility – in the Villa under his watch. It is called “the Office of the Wife of the President.” In other words, Patience Jonathan had six eggs. Nigerians screamed and condemned her for having six eggs. We condemned Goodluck Jonathan for allowing his wife to have six eggs where the Constitution makes provision for none. Our own Professor Soyinka saw and castigated a sheppopotamus with six illegal eggs. President Buhari was part of this culture of national revulsion for Patience Jonathan’s six eggs. He granted an interview to Daily Trust and promised to abolish the six eggs not recognized by the Constitution. However, it does seem to me that Patience Jonathan’s illegal six eggs have been replaced by half a dozen eggs for Aisha Buhari. President Buhari must endeavour to return us to his word in this matter.
In essence, President Buhari’s word is just as important as the aura with which he is scaring the heck out of the goats who ate our yams. The yam eaters are all over the place, pissing in their pants, sending peace committees on nonsensical, poorly-disguised soft landing errands, forming malaria, eczema, dysentery and all kinds of illnesses in foreign hospitals. All because of the aura and body language of one man. This personal capital must be parlayed into institutions to rebuild and strengthen them, especially our mechanisms of discipline and punish, of crime and punishment.
But, above all, this personal capital must sit on the foundation of the President’s word.

Source; http://saharareporters.com/2015/08/22/buhari-awaiting-chapter-two-integrity-story-pius-adesanmi
(.....emphasis mine; italics, bold print)

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makzeze:
Undistributed fertilizer purchased by yuguda's government.

This is a very important lesson to the current governor and the forner governor.

Lesson to learn: when govt purchased something for distribution to the ordinary citizens at subsidized rate or free, it should be done so without delay, with transparency, and ability. failure to do so, entails dire consequences.

OP, I beg 2 disagree with you,....as in, that isn't d most valuable lesson to be learnt in d bauchi fertilizer saga.
The key lesson is, Isa Yuguda didn't buy these bags of fertilizers with his personal money,......what business does he then have bagging them with his portrait?
Seriously Naija needs a legislation against all such idiotic and vain glorying things. Yuguda bought the fertilizers with tax payers money/federal allocation, the most he should have done in saner climes is to brand d bags 'courtesy of bauchi state government, 2014'.

Jlow2:
c230 with v6 engine?

Yea,.... I have seen one before. In fact we ad to run a Vin report to be sure it wasn't cloned. C230 2006 V6. But, it's isn't a Kompressor model.

fearnot1:
Thanks for your observation. Noted.

Anyone that knows the value after inspection will buy... Just be careful not to buy a stolen vehicle .

When it is time , it shall be sold.

Regards
Fear Not.

Matured response. I like your spirit guy

babyfaceafrica:
buts that's not fair and does not guarantee the best candidate will win...well dats dee cup of coffee!!

Guy pls stopping displaying your ignorance and stupidity on a public forum. I bet you are a teenager whose only hobby is Nollywood movies.
Obaship/Kingship in d southwest isn't a democratic thing, so d issue of best candidate doesn't hold here.
Every prince or princess from d ruling house whose turn it is is eligible to express interest to be d next Ooni of Ife. The Kingmakers then prunes down the list and present it to Ifa,..... Ifa is d final authority on who becomes d Ooni.
If d Ooni throne continues to exist for another 1000yrs,....so also shall d exact same procedure stepped in 100% traditional and occultict (?) stuffs remain for the selection of successive Oonis'.

babyfaceafrica:
Season film....what I don't understand is which oneisthe next king must come fromone particular ruling house?...what do they mean by that?... Last time I checked as long as you have royal blood you are entitled to the throne!!...all this policy of rotation is a no no for me !!!

1. You are a learner
2. You are obviously too lazy to read, or do some research to educate yourself
3. We have seen enough threads on Nairaland alone this past 1 week to sufficiently inform and educate anyone who is willing to learn the modalities for choosing successive Oonis in Ife.

It's not scam.
It's a naija used E Class
It's 8 cylinders,..... how many Nairalanders want a naija used V8?
Its model year is btw 2006-2008.
......its even a bit over priced. N1.5M to N1.6M is more like it. It's easier to dispose a Naija used E320 2003-2006 for N1.5m - N1.6m than to dispose a E550 4matic

Am surprised no one has voiced out d concern dt dis 407 is grossly over priced,.....and to imagine dt dis thread has been online for more 30 days.
A naija used 407 for N1.7mill? How much is tokunbo 407 sef, straight frm cotonou, wit genuine duty,.... N1mill 550 at most. Not too long ago someone had a tokunbo 407 wit nav n reverse camera for N1.4mill right hia on NL.
Added to d fact dt dis 407 is d old model/generation 1 407. Guy, d best dis ride will go for is btw N850k-N950k. Bliv me.

......you deploy an additional SINGLE aircraft, and yet you are shouting it on d rooftop. Yeye.....

OZAOEKPE:
I know that the truth hurts most times, but I have to say it. To me soyinka is just a lucky man, for him to have won a nobel price with works like,"d lion and the jewel", he should be thankful.
He cannot and can never reach the height and peak chinua achebe reached.
Before you quote me, please google when he won that "lucky" nobel price.

.....haters unlimited.

AutoAffair:
2.1 Last Price

Guy pls always indicate in the title of your thread if yor vehicle is 'tokunbo' or 'used'.
This is a used RX330 nah,..... N2mill plus? Abeg!!!

There is one Nigerian who is absolutely certain to be probed, but it is not whom you might first suspect.

That person, and I write this so he knows it for certain, is Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s current President.

History will probe Buhari in ways even he cannot now think of subjecting anyone. That is why he must not be mistaken about the challenge in front of him to do what he knows he was voted to do: get to the bottom of corruption in Nigeria. He has no choice.

Still, it is self-evident that arresting corruption cannot be an end in itself; the effort must be a means to restating Nigeria as a country, towards providing a firm and sustainable foundation for her development.

By his pronouncements, Buhari understands this. Before History probes him, however, he has stated that he will probe the government which preceded him.

That government had the morals of a prostitute. It lacked shame. It provided respectability to daylight robbery, especially the most conniving and mercenary kind, and deserves to be probed.

While I that government being robustly scrutinized, it is worth restating that it is clearly not the only one in recent times that was guilty of anti-people and anti-Nigeria practices. I therefore propose to Buhari an easy component to this probe that is fair, productive and manageable. It would also encourage healthy public participation.

That approach is to probe public projects. While some of the looting of Nigeria has involved current expenditure, the most outrageous, from year to year, and from one istration to the other, has been in the area of infrastructure. That is because the procedure has been so easy: get something into the budget, get the funds out, share it.

The entire world knows the result: a nation of uncompleted projects. In one of President Jonathan’s novel initiatives, he set up the Presidential Projects Assessment Committee in March 2010 to examine cases of abandoned projects at the federal level. When the team turned in its report in May 2011, it contained an astounding 11,886 projects.

Worse still, that committee observed that its figure was conservative, and that the correct inventory could be up to 20 per cent higher. In other words, a more accurate number would have been around 15,000.

“We take no joy in confirming that there is indeed evidence of large scale, widespread institutional mediocrity, deficiency of vision, and a lack of direction in project management, which result in poor conceptualisation, poor design and faulty execution,” said chairman Ibrahim Bunu. He cited the infamous Ajaokuta Steel Company project, on which $4.5 billion has been squandered in 30 years. “Needless to add that this has resulted in avoidable loses of billions of Naira to the government.”

That was in 2010, and Mr. Jonathan’s first year in office. He promised to take action, but typically, he did not move a muscle until voters muscled him out five years later.

In the interim, his government went on to add hundreds, perhaps thousands of projects of its own in the five years that followed. In May 2011 in my column, I documented his mountain of electoral promises, which is available online, and which yielded some of those fake or uncompleted projects.

But rather than dismiss this as a problem in itself, I think it provides part of the answer, which is that the current government should implement the reports of presidential enquiries that its predecessor did not have the heart to touch. By doing so, Buhari will not only unearth a ton of money, he will provide a vital missing element in our democracy: continuity, sending the important message to aspiring office holders that official responsibility does not end when your tenure does.

Mr. Jonathan’s Projects Assessment Committee report needs some updating, but it is essentially a comprehensive starting point for trying to understand what has happened to Nigeria. Implementing it would provide a disionate approach to limiting the damage and teaching some essential lessons to public office-holders and their friends about impunity.

In my view, given the large number of projects involved, a decision will have to be made as to a cut-off point in order to limit the number of infrastructure projects that are still viable or desirable. Some of them would have to be merged, some of them sold, and others completely written off.

Those projects chosen for further work or completion should be partly funded from direct recovery of the funds originally looted from them. Of particular focus here should be projects in electricity, petroleum, roads, education and health: fields were the greatest callousness was deployed against the most vulnerable.

It is remarkable to consider, for instance, that as much as $16 billion was lost on the electricity file during a short period of time before President Umaru Yar’Adua assumed office. No other country would work away from a challenge as stupendous as that one, and the records are still current. It is possible to recover no less than $12 billion from that alone. Fittingly, some of the funds should go into building a few new jails that would house some of the thieves.

All we have to do is find out who collected the funds for each particular uncompleted project, and publish a full dossier, complete with clear deadlines for refunding the funds outstanding against those names. Those who default should have their assets frozen or seized.

In this connection, it is good to learn that President Buhari has turned some attention to the Halliburton scandal, and related reports that have never been implemented. The foreign report, from February 2008, implicated several former Nigeria leaders and their spouses: about 80 persons in total, who walked away with fat Halliburton bribes.

The other report, the Okiro Report, emerged early in 2010. Despite confirming the foreign report and revealing many more Nigerians who had benefited from the bribery bonanza, it has never been implemented.

The way forward should necessarily involve electoral reform, for which the celebrated Justice Muhammadu Uwais Report awaits implementation. Again, it is one of those reports on which Mr. Jonathan had vowed to act, but subsequently reneged, especially once he decided he wanted to run for office in 2011.

It would be recalled, however, that in March 2010, the Secretary to the Government, Mahmud Yayale Ahmed, announced that Mr. Jonathan, who was at the time Acting President, had sent the report to the National Assembly. Regrettably, nothing was heard about the report in its undiluted form thereafter, and Nigeria waits to benefit from the groundbreaking reforms it recommended.

In other words, there is no wheel to reinvent. Let Buhari, ing that he will throughout his tenure, and eternally thereafter, be forensically investigated, do the right thing once and for all. He should place all the key projects on the table to be inspected in the full light of day.

[email protected]
Twitter: @SonalaOlumhense

SOURCE; http://saharareporters.com/2015/08/08/probe-projects-not-persons-sonala-olumhense

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Lalasticlala
Afam4eva

Naijadeyhia, Idowuogbo,..... Pataki and everyone else who stood, laboured and fought for Revlution's cause,......abeg what's happening to Revlution's issue? Abi the matter has been resolved ni? Abi it has been swept under the carpet finally

On July 9th chelseabmw, the dethroned former of Nairaland's Auto section pulled down a complaint thread by Revlution, against the ignoble Inspiredm. Seun stood by that action,.....with the understanding that the 112page thread would be restored online after a month if Inspiredm doesn't keep his end of d bargain.
It's exactly a month 2day,......and Nairalanders like me are beginning to wonder why Nairaland is bent on providing Inspiredm a safe hiding place, and also a soft landing. What is the fate of the victim, Revlution....a female, and her investment of N2.64million

Abeg forumites, what's d latest about Revlution and inspired? On which thread is issue burning hot? I recall dt Seun and his goons pulled down Revlution's thread precisely on d 9th of July, with d promise that it wud be reactivated after a month if inspired doesn't pay up.
Can we honestly expect Revlution's thread to be given life on Sunday 9th August

A lecturer who has worked for at least 3-4hrs, with a masters degree, and a PhD in view earns btw N125k-N130k monthly.
......a militant (weather ex or current) earns N65k monthly irrespective of educational qualifications, from the same government.
......little wonder Nigeria is in a quagmire!

jacarantha:
Car in Lekki but can travel.

.... 267,642miles is equals 428,227.2km.
Hmmmmmm

femauto:
Car is in a mint condition

..... I guess you don't know the meaning of 'mint condition'. The fact that you need to make a sale doesn't mean you shud stop been realistic, esp when Nairalanders can see for themselves from pictures.

On July 24, 2015, Mr. Olusegun Akinwusi, former Head of Service of Osun state delivered a speech to the Osun Stakeholders Summit at Aquarium Event Center, Parakin, Ile-Ife. In his speech, he had come up with the details of how much has accrued to the State of Osun since the Governor Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola assumed office in November 2010.

In that speech, Mr. Akinwusi had contended that Governor Aregbesola is “lying” to the people of Osun state in regard to the income from the Federal Allocation and other sources of income to the state. He posited that Governor Aregbesola has been and is still taking the people of Osun for a ride by misinforming the Osun State House of Assembly (OSHA) about the true state of the people’s commonwealth.

Governor Aregbesola has been in the news in recent times, mostly because of his mismanagement of the resources of Osun State. His popularity has turned to notoriety. He has become a reviled figure among the generality of the people of the state except among a handful of his hardcore ers. He has been so pummeled that at times one would have to pity him. But in a matter that is of life and death to the people of the state, where the present is mortgaged and the future is under the threat of being foreclosed, there would be no relent until the needful is done and on time.

Mr. Akinwusi is not a persona non grata in Osun State. Yes, he is not a “nobody” in the State of Osun. As a former Head of Service, he has paid his dues. He could not be described as a frivolous person. He could not be dismissed as an unserious mind. No matter how this is rolled or diced, he is a legitimate stakeholder in Osun State having put his skills and talent in the service of that state all of his life. So, he, just like every other citizen, has a legitimate reason to be concerned if he feels that there is existential threat to Osun State.

Akinwusi in his speech had written inter alia:
“Recently, our governor addressed the state House of Assembly on the position of the economy of our state. NOT only that the figures given were bogus, but they were criminally deceitful. This government came on board in November, 2010; I will therefore give details of the income and expenditure as available on-line, especially from the Federation compared with what was presented to our state representatives.

T o substantiate his claim that Governor Aregbesola is a “liar” who has been deceiving the people of the state about the true income from the Federal Allocation, he presented the following figures to contrast what Ogbeni Aregbesola presented to the people through their “representative” in the OSHA as follows:

YEAR 2010
MONTH ALLOCATED AMOUNT
November N3,359,574,999
December N2,643,527,897
Total = N6,003,102,896 bn
2011
January N2,696,765,229
February N2,645,955,515
March N2,777,616,461
April N2,885,614,779
May N3,805,132,254
June N6,642,100,744
July N3,968,379,222
August N3,875,166,548
September N4,536,205,850
October N6,151,023,296
November N3,805,409,418
December N4,396,762,996
Total= Approx N48.2bn
Against a sum of N29.9bn the governor declared to Osun State House of Assembly (OSHA).

2012 ALLOCATED AMOUNT
January N3,894,581,054
February N4,842,019,095
March N3,921,855,981
April N3,614,243,600
May N3,618,147,287
June N3,446,176,188
July N4,451,689,936
August N3,473,346,273
September N2,678,278,414
October N4,133,057,528
November N5,610,314,299
December N4,114,871,121
Total Approx N47.8bn
The governor declared a sum of N31.6bn.

2013
MONTH ALLOCATED AMOUNT
January N3,291,209,812
February N5,064,089,701
March N4,204,314,757
April N4,294,238,309
May N4,063,536,687
June N4,353,931,533
July N3,271,484,073
August N3,637,472,918
September N2,955,122,740
October N3,479,416,049
November N3,348,427,615
December N2,694,382,073
Total Approx N44.7bn
A sum of N26.4bn was declared by the governor to Osun State House of Assembly.

2014
MONTH ALLOCATED AMOUNT
January N3,050,792,396
February N3,014,708,843
March N3,019,480,006
April N2,838,749,560
May N4,131,453,072
June N3,557,937,064
July N3,557,937,063
August N3,047,503,618
September Nil
October N2,773,853,335
November N2,778,332,759
December N2,479,474,912
Total Approx N36.7bn

Although there was a missing record of one (1) month, we still had on the strength of the eleven (11) months – N36.7bn, while the governor declared only N19.3bn for the whole year. By the conclusion of the governor we received only N108.3bn in all excluding our IGR, as against a total sum of N183.4bn excluding one (1) month in the period under review.

Given the above figures, there is a difference of 75.1 billion naira that has disappeared into thin air! Ogbeni Aregbesola has an explanation to make to the people of Osun State. He has to tell us where the money has gone and why he has decided to manipulate the figures. If he thinks Mr. Akinwusi is lying to the people of Osun, then he needs to come out and say so with his own proof and allow the people to judge.

75.1 billion naira is a lot of money to a state like Osun. It may not be anything to Lagos State where Aregbesola came from as a commissioner for works under Bola Tinubu. We may not be rich in Osun, but we are not fools. We may overlook mistakes but we would not tolerate the destruction of the state. We would not accept criminal activities in the governance of Osun state. Aregbesola must come out to tell us what happened to the difference and where that difference is!

After providing the above figures to proof that Ogbeni Aregbesola has been deceiving the people of the state, Mr. Akinwusi then addressed the issue of worker’s population strength and their bill to be paid by the state. He contended as follows:
“The gimmick of salaries of workers is fraught with many manipulations of figures as usual. The total staff strength of our workforce is below twenty-one (21,000). This is because over 1/3 of the workforce voluntarily retired in December, 2012. From grapevine, it is being speculated that since civil servants are no longer allowed to do their statutory duties, i.e preparation of salaries, a number of fictitious names had found their way into the payroll of government, even people that have never been to Osun State.

The figure of N3.6bn as salaries is spurious and over inflated, I challenge anyone that the best the salary bill could be cannot be more than N2.2bn.”
So, where did Ogbeni Aregbesola get his bill of 3.6 billion as being the salary of workers in Osun state? It is very important that in the interest of transparency and fairness to the people of Osun State, Ogbeni Aregbesola must come out with the number of the present number of employees on the payroll of the State, ministry by ministry, parastatal by parastatal, department by department and how much their wages is costing the state. He could not just keep silent over this matter. He has to speak out.
Mr. Akinwusi then dwelled on the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and other sources of income in Osun State as follows:
More importantly, besides the regular monthly allocation from the federation , the followings also accrued to government coffers:-
(i) ECA - N61.7bn
(ii) IGR - N43.6n
(iii) SURE-P- N14.4bn
(iv) SUBEB- N13.9bn
There are other interventionist programmes including UNICEF, Multinational donations and MDG releases etc.”

N25 billion to service a debt of N11 billion?
One of the most disturbing revelations by Mr. Akinwusi in that speech is that of the loan from the Islamic Bank called SUKUK. The loan is supposed to be interest free to the state according to Ogbeni Aregbesola. Mr. Akinwusi is now contending that this is not the case. He is insisting that Osun state would have to pay N25.5billion to service a loan of N11.1 billion! I would like to disbelieve Mr. Akinwusi. His claim is too grave to be true. To this end, the people of Osun would like Ogbeni Aregbesola to come out and make the facts of this case known to the public. Is Mr. Akinwusi lying or telling the truth?

Also of concern are loans allegedly procured by Ogbeni Aregbesola with “a moratorium of 5-6 years.” This would mean that the loans would be due for repayment after 2020 and beyond when Aregbesola would no longer be in office as governor of Osun state. We are not sure if these claims are ture. But if Ogbeni Aregbesola fails to come out to contend this statements with verifiable facts, then he would be due for stoning publicly. Initially we were speaking of mortgaging the future, now it appears that the future of Osun state and her unborn children have been foreclosed!

As to how the rules, laws and norms of governance were and are still being violated by Ogbeni Aregbesola, Mr. Akinwusi contended as follows:
“The issue of our debilitating debt profile honestly contradicts the quantum of resources that had flown into the government coffers, when viewed against the background of the various allocations to the state and local governments. Today, the entire allocations for the two (2) tiers of governments are solely controlled by the governor. Local government funds do not get to them, most are disbursed by the governor, while the so called Executives Secretaries merely endorse resolutions prepared for them to regularize the illegalities. No records, both at the state and local government levels about the disbursement of our releases for SURE-P and ECA funds.

Let us ask the where about of N17.5bn borrowed for the dualisation of Osogbo to Ila-Odo, as corroborated by the Bank for infrastructure to date. These items like many others were replicated in the N60bn bond, yet all these projects have been abandoned; it on record that N9.7bn would be expended on the phony urban renewal project, all to date moribund. The Ido-Osun Airport project is another nagging matter, for which billions have been expended so far, and deceitful statements made about its completion in the media.

The state government has no budget, this is because there is no adherence to the rules and norms of budget cycle. Contrary to the norm, there is nothing like Treasury Board for the preparation of this all important policy document, instead a kangaroo – meeting called bilateral talk is in vogue since the inception of the istration. That is why we spend over 60% in excess of our actual revenue. For example in 2011 a sum of N102bn was budgeted, increased to N146bn in 2012, to N235bn for 2013 and 2014 and N201bn for 2015. These figures were without recourse to budget performances in the previous years. The monthly FAC composed of eight ( principal officers of government has been cancelled; therefore only the governor and his commissioner for Finance know the income and expenditure of government and thus our total debt profile. Not even the ant General or Permanent Secretary Finance
have an inkling of this crucial functions of government.”

Ogbeni Aregbesola has to come out and respond to this. He could not afford to be silent on all these grave allegations. He has to understand that the Osun people would not keep quiet until they get answers to these allegations. N o amount of blackmail, intimidation or harassment would silent the people of Osun over these alleged criminal acts under his auspices. The people of Osun are waiting to hear Aregbesola’s explanations. Nigerian are watching and waiting too!

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Source; http://saharareporters.com/2015/08/03/aregbesola-vs-akinwusi-who-telling-truth-remi-oyeyemi

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