Governor Saliu Elenuugboro governs a state whose indigenous people love to gobble up snails together with the shells. A people who would rob you and declare you guilty of being robbed, they mount on horses to effect the robbery. What else can be true with the latest impasse between labour union leaders and this contemporary Bashorun Gaa? What was supposed to be a cordial meeting was indeed a trap, and an attempt to truncate, suppress and rob the opposing voices who were simply requesting for what rightfully was theirs in a democracy. Mr Elenuugboro turned a reasonable protest and a civil industrial action into an imbroglio that reminds someone of the tyrannical,oppressive and high handed exploits of Bashorun Gaa in the 16th century Oyo empire. For how long will this reign of terror last? Up till now, despite interventions from the government at the centre, Mr Saliu has adamantly and arrogantly refused to pay the salaries of civil servants and public workers from December 2015 till date. In one of his arrogant and senseless outbursts, he declared he owed the public servants no obligation to pay their salaries since they preferred Ladoja to him. At other times, he told Oyo state pensioners who have spent their youthful days to serve the government that he "has not paid the living. So why would he pay the dead?" That it wasn't his fault that they (the pensioners) did not train their children properly so that they can take care of them at their old age. Forgetting that one day, the dead, the missing and the living will all meet. All hail Governor Saliu Elenuugboro, the one who would arrogate all resources and powers to himself, the one who would deprive workers of their wages and use his elevated position to ensure that they remained deprived, the one who would rob the people and blame them for it

I weep for my dear state...