.

Two years ago, it became public
knowledge that the All
Progressives Congress (APC)
Governor of Ogun State, Senator
Ibikunle Amosun’s claim that he
bagged a Master of Arts (M.A.)
degree in International Finance
from the University of
Westminster, United Kingdom
and his actual date of birth were
questionable.

No concrete response was
provided to the allegations then
by the governor, and as a fallout
to the crisis presently rocking the
APC in Ogun State, the allegations
are set to be brought to the fore
again.

Sources have revealed that the
allegations of forgery and perjury
against the governor will soon
be raised again by APC members
loyal to former Governor of Ogun
State, Chief Segun Osoba and his
erstwhile Deputy, Senator
Adegbenga Kaka.

“New petitions are going to be
raised on the alleged forgery and
perjury,” a source said.

One of the sources said; “this
time around, we will pursue the
issue to a logical conclusion.”

Prior to the 2011 governorship
election,severa l petitioners
from
Ogun State had questioned
various claims made by the
governor in his profile filed with
the Independent National
ElectoralCommis sion (INEC), and
called for a full investigation and
possible criminal prosecution.

Amosun had claimed in his
election documents presented to
INEC the possession of a Master
of Arts (M.A.) degree in
International Finance from the
University of Westminster, United
Kingdom.

However, investigations at the
university shown that the
institution offers only a Master of
Science (MSC) International
Finance, not an M.A.

Also, an enquiry at the Evaluation
and Accreditation Department of
the Federal Ministry of Education,
Abuja through a letter on May 3,
2011, informing the Ministry of
suspicion on the authenticity of
the certificate presented to INEC
by Senator Amosun on his M.A. in
International Finance from the
University of Westminster in
2000 revealed that the University
of Westminster does not offer
Masters of Art in International
Finance.

Replying, on May 13, 2011, in a
letter signed by A.O Adigwe on
behalf of the Permanent
Secretary, Federal Ministry of
Education, the Ministry confirmed
that the University of
Westminster offers only the “M.Sc
(Master of Science) in
International Finance, but added,
“There must have been a gross
error in the issue of M.A (Master
of Arts) International Finance to
Mr. Ibikunle Oyelaja Amosun.”

Other claims questioned in
Amosun’s avalanche of claims
include:
· Earlier study by the Governor.
· His date of birth, of which there
seem to be two, and
· His National Youth Service Corps
participation.

In his Certificate of Registration
of Birth number 242484 issued
by the Western State of Nigeria,
issued on November 18, 1976,
Governor Amosun’s date of birth
was entered as January 25, 1958.
Also, in the profile he submitted
to INEC, Amosun maintained that
he was born on January 25,
1958.

However, in his Ogun State
Polytechnic, Abeokuta Student
Registration/ Personal Data File
completed in his own
handwriting, Governor Amosun
claimed that he was born on
January 25, 1960.
On his technical study claim,
Amosun claimed to be at the
Ogun State Polytechnic, Abeokuta
between 1979 and1983 for both
the Ordinary National Diploma
(OND) and Higher National
Diploma (HND) is being
questioned.

Those who raised posers on the
governor’s claim said; “This claim
appears false in that between
OND and HND there was a year
mandatory internship students
must observe. Could it then be
that he did not serve the
mandatory one year? Because if
he did, his year of graduation
should be 1984 not 1983.
“In his CV, he claimed to have
done his internship at Ogun/
Osun River Basin Authority in
1982 (6 months) and at Nigerian
Television Authority (NTA) in
1981 (6 months).

“From this claim, what Amosun is
saying was that he was in school
simultaneously while doing his
internship?”
“In a few days time, we will
begin to ask questions as to the
actual date of birth of the
governor, the veracity of his
claim on his Master of Arts (M.A.)
degree in International Finance
from the University of
Westminster, United Kingdom
and the actual period that he
attended Ogun State Polytechnic,
Abeokuta (now Monshood Abiola
Polytechnic).

“Definitely, we are going to fight
him ditty and we won’t retreat
until we get to the bottom of the
matter, ” one of the aggrieved
APC members said.

The crisis that erupted in APC
Ogun State yesterday was a time
bomb only waiting to explode,it
all started on Monday when
Amosun sent out invitation to the
members of the State
Harmonizing Committee that the
Committee would seat yesterday
Thursday to inaugurate the 5
man State Interim Committee that
will manage the affairs of the
Party, supervise the registration
of members, the congress and
the convention in accordance to
the directives from the National.
the five man State Interim
Committe (SIC) are to be drawn
from the 39 members of the
State Harmonising Committee
(SHC) The APC National in his
wisdom said Amosun should
nominate the Chairman of the SIC
while Chief Osoba should
nominate the Secretary and the 3
remaining offices should be
nominated for through votes.

Since Monday the horse trading
had started with each side trying
to out smart each other. Amosun
who believed he had 18
members out of the 39 went on
spending spree trying to buy
more members believing money
and power will do it, forgetting
that most of the members he
thought are in his side are
Osoba's.

By Tuesday he had camped all his
believed SHC members/
supporters in Continental Suites
those he didn't so much trust like
Samuel Durojaye, Olu Adebanjo,
Olabiyi Durojaye and Poju
Adeyemi. He gave them N5m
each while he gave Alhaji Elias,
Alhaja Ashiata, Alhaji Awofeso,
Mrs Lola Akanni and former ACN
State Youth Leader Abimbola
Abiodun N2.5m each but most of
these people got the money
switched off their phones and
went to Osoba home in Lagos.

When most of them failed to
report at their hotel rooms in
Abeokuta and couldnt be
reached through phones the
Governor became worried.

On Tuesday evening Amosun
called Otunba Niyi Adebayo the
South West Coordinator of APC
and told him he want to drop
one of his nominees Chief Doja
Adewolu and replace him with
Tunji Egbetokun, a name that
was totally not on the list before.

To this, Adebayo objected and
said the list has already been
ratified by the National lnterim
Committe and cant be changed.

Amosun's plan was to make
Egbetokun the Chairman of the
SIC and to this Osoba and others
disagreed.

As at Wednesday Night, 23
members of the SHC were
sighted at Osoba's Burdillon
Home, Amosun who had earlier
chose Gateway Hall beside
Presidential Lodge as the venue
of the meeting later in the
evening on Wednesday went to
Tinubu and said his plans has
fallen like pack of cards and
would want the inauguration to
be postponed.

Tinubu called Akande and Osoba
to his house but they failed to
show up, then Amosun sent text
messages that the inauguration
has beenpostponed indefinitely
but the members refused saying
only him cant hold them to
ransom.

So yesterday, over 400 APC
members of Mata'gbamole stock
from Ewekoro and Ifo were in
APC Secretariat at Leme Abeokuta
on solidarity rally for their leaders
but Amosun unleashed his thugs
Jango, Americo and others
against them beating,
machetting and maiming them.

Even the Area Commander of
police were there helplessly.
Senator Kaka and other members
with Chief Osoba came to the
Secretariat amidst tight security
to see the damages done to the
Secretariat, the neighbourhood.

Osoba said,"if I'm still alive
Amosun won't get a return ticket
in this Party ".



Kaka who was elected as the
Secretary of SIC addressed press
at lwe lrohin House.

The question is "what is the
problem with Amosun?

how many battles does he
wantto fight?

Just two days ago he dissolved
Local Government Legislative arm
of lmeko Afon LG because the
legislators suspended their
chairman for embezzlement.

Now he is planning to dissolved
that of Abeokuta South, Obafemi
Owode, Odeda and ljebu Ode
because he said some Chairmen
and Councillors there belong to
Matagbamole.

Like Senator Kaka rightfully asked
"how many people can he
crush?"

Time will tell.

Woe to Amosun!!

Suspected thugs believed to
members of the Ogun State
branch of the National Union of
Road Transport Workers on
Thursday unleashed terror on
journalists and residents of Leme,
Abeokuta, when they invaded the
state secretariat of the All
Progressives Congress.

The suspected thugs, also
believed to be loyal to the state
government, had invaded the APC
secretariat at about 10.30am to
stop a meeting of the members of
the Harmonisation Committee
scheduled to hold at the party
office.

The rampaging thugs smatched
cameras belonging to the
correspondents of the Galaxy
Television and MITV, Kunle Ojo
and Taofeek Lawal, respectively

The suspected thugs, armed with
various dangerous weapons and
missiles, also snatched blackberry
phones belonging to the
correspondent of the Radio
Nigeria/ Paramount FM, Mrs.
Modupe Sobukola.

They also manhandled the
journalists, including the State
Correspondent of the Tribune,
Olayinka Olukoya, with the aid of
soldiers and policemen deployed
in the APC secretariat.

The security agencies held the
journalists while the thugs
molested them and smatched
their cameras and blackberry
phones.

Scores of residents of the area
were also seriously injured by the
thugs, who attacked any member
of the community in sight.

Several cars at a dealer’s shop
near the APC state secretariat
were vandalised by the thugs,
who also capitalised on the
commotion to dispossess
residents of their valuables and
other personal effects.

They also vandalised the State
Secretariat of the APC.

The members of the state
Harmonisation Committee, led by
Senator Gbenga Kaka, later
addressed newsmen at the Iwe
Irohin Secretariat of the Nigeria
Union of Journalists.

Category: SPECIAL REPORTS
Published on Friday, 03 January
2014 20:23
Written by Elombah.com

…Builds 1 kilometer of road for N1
billion

The Ogun state governor, Ibikunle
Amosun has been accused of
criminally forging the signature of
the clerk and some other
members of the State House of
Assembly to pass the state
pension bill into law.

Impeccable and named sources in
Ogun State has revealed to
Elombah.com that the criminal act
carried out by Ogun State
governor, is currently generating
friction between the governor
and the honourable members of
the house.

The Governor has also been
accused of hiding Ogun state's
total debt figures under his
administration as well as
constructing some of the most
expensive roads per kilometer in
the country and spending a
whopping 260 million Naira on a
needless Pedestrian bridge on his
street.

One of our sources, Mr
Ifeanyichukwu Sudo, a Journalist
and publisher of Ogun State News
bulletin called Ilese News Extra
authoritatively revealed to us
that the bill to amend the state
pension bill was forged by the
governor.

The pension bill titled ‘A BILL FOR
A LAW TO AMEND THE PENSION
REFORM LAW 2006’ was
sponsored by Hon. Solarin Samuel
and Co-sponsored by Hon. Sonuga
Samuel, Hon. Adegbesan Joseph,
Hon. Ojodu Olayiwola and Hon.
Allen-Taylor Olufemi, all from the
Ogun State House of Assembly in
2013.

The bill after amendment was
sent to the governor by the
lawmakers and signed into law by
governor Amosun on 25th
September 2013.


Documents made available to us
have revealed that the actual bill
sent to the governor was not only
doctored but the signature of the
Clerk of the House, Muyiwa
Adenopo who purportedly signed
the bill was also forged. Some
parts of the bill were also secretly
expunged by the governor and
his cronies.

The controversial part of the bill
which we found to have been
doctored is the AMENDMENT OF
SECTION 17 OF THE PRINCIPAL LAW

In the document obtained from
the House of Assembly which was
passed by members of the house
and sent to the governor for
consent, it stated the following:

8. (1) As at the date of this
amendment, the State and Local
Governments Retirement Benefits
Bond redemption funds account
shall cease and be closed and the
funds contained therein shall
become payable to the State and
Local Governments respectively.

However, in the Bill signed and
passed into law Governor Amosun
on the 25th September 2013, the
governor criminally removed the
word 'LOCAL GOVERNMENT' to
allow all the Retirements Benefits
Bond funds be payable ONLY to
the State Government.

The Bill signed into law reads:

8. (1) As at the date of this
amendment, the State and Local
Governments Retirement Benefits
Bond redemption funds account
shall cease and be closed and the
funds contained therein shall be
repaid to Ogun State Government

A meticulous look at the signature
page of the Bill purportedly
signed by the Clerk of the House
and the State Governor, it reads:

This printed impression has been
carefully compared by me with
the bill which has been passed by
the Ogun State House of Assembly
and found by me to be a true and
correct printed copy of the said
bill.

According to our sources: “The
above forgery and deceit at the
height of governance points to
the impunity with which Governor
Ibikunle Amosun continues to
preside over the affairs of Ogun
State”

Governor Amosun continues to
hide the state's total debt figures
under his administration even as
witnessed in his budget speech to
the House of Assembly in
November 2013. In the said
speech, the YEAR UNDER REVIEW
section deceitfully did not contain
the achieved revenue figures in
2013 that funded the 2013
budget. Some Budget Analyst
consulted by our source, Ilese
News Extra stated that this may
be because the Government is
trying to hide the actual loans it
may have taken in the year and
which forms part of the year's
revenue.

The actual Capital receipts (i.e
loans, grants etc) they said, may
not have been in accordance to
what was approved in the 2013
budget, hence it was deceitfully
left out when it ordinarily should
have been part of the Year Under
review figures.

All hope was lost when the Ogun
State people were told that the
State House of Assembly passed
the 2014 budget without
receiving the debt stock figures
from the Finance Commissioner.

"The Ogun State people do not
know how much they owe arising
from the road constructions in
the state priced at N1billion/
kilometer and much more in other
instances", a source lamented.

The All Progressive Congress
governor who is gunning for re-
election had earlier claimed to
have built the first air-
conditioned foot bridge at a
ridiculous price of N260million, a
project widely described as a
white elephant.

The bridge is located at Sokori/
Totoro Road in Ogun State. During
the launching, Amosun said he
saw the bridge in Dubai and
decided to bring the bridge to
Ogun State.

With claims of development in his
regime, sources have stated that
the state governor has built the
most expensive roads in Nigeria
as well as bridges, with all the
cost inflated.

Commenting on the report, a
government insider told
elombah.com that the “House of
assembly in Ogun state did not
request for the figure of the
debt”, and so that is why the
figure was not included in the
review presented by the governor
to the House, a defense a
stakeholder in the state termed to
be spurious.

See criminals that ran the state aground trying to get back to the govt house through the back door!! never will OGD criminals rule Ogun state again. Awon omo ole ifo. idiota!

Lol....they have been announcing
intention for months now....let
them move now...abi? Can they
retain their seats if they decamp?

This is a well painted pictures of
the situation in Ogun State, but I
must quickly add this unfortunate
promises and fail incident does
not limit to Ogun state alone, it is a
general thing across the length
and breath of the country, so no
polical mischeif should come from
the enemies/ opponents of the
Ogun incumbent Governor. No
doubt, SIA rode into the office
through the public sysmpathy,
arisen from the OGD's last leg
lacklustre performance in the
office (the first term tenure
performance was excellent) and
the political imbroglio involving
his executive arm of government
and the state House of Assembly.
This gave OGD bad public image
that ultimately catapulted SIA into
office. My take here is that the
Nigerian electorates must learn
from past mistakes. We should
look well before we leap and
never vote for sentiments again,
but for the office seekers positive
pedigree. Huummm!! That is
where the problem lies, do we
have among the crop of our
present day politicians one with
impeccable records and life style.?

Now those kids have been
indicted.? I just read the report on
their second appearance in court.
I thought they said they were
election observers, why the
criminal charges then? Where are
the people who sent them? Will
they put up bail for them? Our
youth ought to learn one or two
lessons from this incident.

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

PRESS STATEMENT

Anambra election: “We have been
vindicated - PDP
Says APC meant evil for Nigeria

The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has said the unfolding of
events in the Anambra
governorship election has
vindicated its earlier alert on the
plot by the All Progressives
Congress (APC) to unleash violence
and rig the election having
discovered that it has been
rejected by the people.

National Publicity Secretary, Chief
Olisa Metuh, in a statement on
Thursday said the “arraignment in
court of the 182 armed thugs
imported into Anambra by the APC
to cause mayhem and disrupt the
elections has justified PDP’s earlier
commendation to security
agencies for providing adequate
security and the enabling
environment to ensure that
election held peacefully and
without violence in spite of the
plan by the APC to turn the state
into a theatre of war and
bloodshed.”

Stating that the APC is “trying to
use Anambra to test its evil
machination against the entire
country”, the PDP said, "APC
having discovered that it will lose
in 2015, has hatched a heavily
funded plot to use the
instrumentality of blackmail, lies
and propaganda to discredit the
electoral system and cause
massive uprising immediately
after the 2015 general elections.”

“The APC is a party of desperate
politicians who are now deeply
pained that Nigerians have
rejected them. It is on record that
APC since its formation has not
won any election, be it at the local,
state or national level.

“Having realized that it has no
chance of winning in 2015 and
equally scared of losing states
currently under its unfortunate
control, the APC is now seeking
every means to cast doubts in the
minds of Nigerians on the
electoral system ahead of the
general elections”

“This explains why the APC will
continue to cry foul in elections
where they were roundly beaten
as in the Delta senatorial rerun
election where they came fourth;
Ondo governorship election
where they came third and
Anambra governorship where
they also came third despite their
grandstanding and long period of
campaign”, the statement said.

“This explains why the APC will
continue to cry foul in elections
where they were roundly beaten
as in the Delta senatorial rerun
election where they came fourth;
Ondo governorship election
where they came third and
Anambra governorship where
they also came third despite their
grandstanding and long period of
campaign”, the statement said.

The PDP said the Anambra
election has once again shown
that it remains the preeminent
party in that state. “In spite of
internal challenges and discordant
tunes, PDP members put up a
credible showing during the
process. We therefore commend
the state chairman and all
members of the party in Anambra
including our candidate, Comrade
Tony Nwoye”, the party said.

The party therefore charged
Nigerians to be vigilant and resist
all attempts by the APC to cause
disunity and truncate the nation’s
democracy.

Signed
Chief Olisa Metuh
National Publicity Secretary.

.

Propaganda Governor

In the 2014 budget proposal
submitted to OGHA by Amosun the
executive proposed "9model
primary health centers", one per
federal constituency.
The house should please tell
Amosun to go and complete the
model schools he started 2years
ago before he starts model
primary health centers.
What is the state of all existing
health centers across the state?
What statistics is he using to
determine that every federal
constituency in Ogun state needs
model primary health center?
Anyway, this is another lie and
deceit.

abrat: Amosun's promise of free health
care for the pregnant women,
children and the aged ones is still
a dream. How I wish he didnt
make such a promise while
campaigning. That really scores his
administration low. A promise
made not kept... Where is integrity here ?

That is the problem, health sector in Ogun State is in comatose and the governor is not even paying attention to it. All we hear is Amosun plans to build cancer center (first of its kind in Africa) in Ogun State.

The commissioner for information
of ogun state,Alhaji Olaniyonu
pointedly declared on a live
programme today on ROCKCITY
FM,Abeokuta that Amosun did not
promise any form of free health at
any time. This is in contrary to what he said during
his electioneering campaign.

www.nairaland.com/679107/ogun-amosun...

Why are politicians always making promises they cannot fulfil?

It is quite sad hearing Yusuph Olaniyonu, the honourable commissioner of information, Ogun State on Rockcity fm today, denying the fact that
Governor Amosun promised free
health care during
his electioneering campaign.

Shame on Amosun and his govt of lies and deceit !!!

If only you can stop being taken
by the shenanigans of a rogue, a
fraud, a crafty business hound....a
wife beater, a drug user and
peddler, who can't answer his
real name, who is ashamed of his
own mother and instead called
another his name...the MOST
corrupt politician this nation has
ever seen....

......and who is that politician, more
corrupt than Tinubu
Who is that politician that has 3
construction companies, Hi-Tech,
part of CCC, and Lekki Construction
Company, all working in all the
states if the South West at 1Billion
Naira per Kilometre?
Who is that politician that owns
Alpha Beta Tax Collection company
that does the IGR in all the Yoruba
states apart from Ondo?....
And who is that politician that
privately goes around in private
Helicopter?
And who is that politician after his
tenure converts the state house to
his own.property like Tinubu did
Bourdilon??

The man that pretended to be a
champion of Democracy, who has
never allowed primaries, the man
who denied Jamiu Abiola,
Primaries in Ogun, but will
shamelessly use Abiola's name
and June 12 to campaign.....
Now, he is visiting Babangida,
Abubakar et al just to acquire
power at all cost, the very people
who led MKO Abiola to his
grave......
The man that will deny his
heritage, a full born Iragbiji man
claiming to be a Lagosian.....
The list is endless......I can only feel
sorry for you;
You are all doped to your
eyeballs..I would sooner you all
stew in your own juices....

Let Tinubu go and tend to the
unkept unmarked graves of his
father and mother at Shangodele
compound at Iragbiji first!
Maybe, and just maybe, he can at
least do something straight in his
life...
Tinubu has no PEDIGREE.....

leave all of you to your
consciences...
But no, no rogue like the
character, who now calls himself,
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, but better
known as Kunle Adeleke by all of
us who grew up with him at
Kudeti, Ibadan, in the 60's, will get
away with all the Evils of his ways
in coveting the Commonwealth of
the Yoruba into his own personal
empire, let alone Nigeria!
NEVER!!

am a fearless Ibadan man!
A descendant of Mighty Men of
Valour!
A Mogaji Olubadan!
A man that knew this fraud of a
man Tinubu, so well at Kudeti in
Ibadan when his mother, his real
mother brought to live with the
Odunjos...my father was the Vicar
at St. David's Church Kudeti then....
I was at Ibadan Grammar School
with his wife who was Remi
Ikusebiala, from the family of
Ikusebiala at UMC Oke Ado in
ibadan....
All I have said here is the
TRUTH.....if anybody knows him, let
him or her show him all that I
have written....
He knows me....
Let him deny it and I will call
witnesses....

am a Yoruba, an Omoluabi, the
son of Late Rev. Canon M.O.
Adejumo, who was the son of
Rev. Canon J. S. Adejumo of Oke-
Offa and Agbeni compounds in
Ibadan....
Ask, the Layodes, the Adeyemo-
Operind des, the Abinusawas, the
Laniyonus, if what I have said
about this man Tinubu is not
TRUE....

Enough of the fraud being
perpetrated in the name of
politics....
Enough!

All local government collation
officers were professors and
senior staff of University of Calabar. With
prof Jega and the state INEC
commissioner who is also a
professor and the VC of Unical, we can see that our
problems are not office holders but
the system.
With all the books they read and
write, they can't conduct free
election for less than 500,00 voters. Just one election, not
gubernatorial with house of
assembly, but just one ballot.
Our professors don fail us!!!

Tinubu:-- Chris. Chris. Chris, how
many times I call U?

Ngige:- Asiwaju, good evening
baba.

Tinubu: - don't good evening me,
what is a good about the
evening? U didn't efen carry 2nd.
3rd loun loun--- haaaa Ngigeeee

Ngige:- Asiwaju, emm emm--
biko'nu, U know this boy Peter, he
really use incumbency power o,
even for my vvv--

Tinubu:- Shut up'u. Shut up. Which
incumbency?-- I gave U 35bil.
35billionnnn Chris-- o ya were ni?
Are U a mad ni?

Ngige:- Asiwaju, nooooo, na 25bil

Tinubu--- koni da fun'e. Chris e no
go beta for U -----Fashola- 5bil,
Fayemi-3bil, Aregbesola-3bil ,
Adams- 5bil, Amosun- 3bil.
Ajimobi- 3bil. Buhari and co- 3bil
How much is that? U think
Asiwaju Private Company get
money to dey waste?

Chris:- but Asiwaju that na 25bil
na

Tinubu;- haaa-- oloshi, according
to APC arithmetic, that is 35bil.
Chris, U are useless o-- we gave U
180 mercenaries, 100,000 fake
voters card, 300 election
observer's card. Plus 35bil-- yet U
carry 3rd-- haa-- U are uselesss

Chris: "stammering"-- U know
they arrested the boys na. And
Asiwaju, its 25bil o

Tinubu;- shut up'u-- shut'upp---
see Chris, let me just tell U , wetin
Ubah use ur eye see that time na
small, if U don't return our money,
wa'gbaa-- U will know say, I
Jagaban no dey play with money.
35billionuuu--
U kuku know how to do juju well
well, so beta go do the juju and
refund our money, if nottt

Ngige;- but Asiwaju, we are going
to court na, we will reject the
result, I have plans

Tinubu;-- Ori mi'o-- Chris, U are
still talking of court, U wey carry
3rd, wetin make Nwoye do? U are
completely mad- o ti ya were pata-
pata-- who will finance the case.?
Idiot, I say are useless

Ngige; - baba no do like that na,
but I'm still useful o, when Oga
Buhari become president, I can be
minister of Finance, so U can have
access to the em emm national
cake

Tinubu-- haa, now I know U are
mad, in fact U are crazy, oloshiii--
so U think say Buhari or any of
this aboki go become president, U
are a Learner--mtchew w

Ngige;- but- U are-----

Tinubu:- shut up, U are what?
They are my bargaining maga--
when time reach, I will dump
them as I dump Ribadu in 2011--
U dey craze? U no know politics?
Why am I even talking to U? See
me in Bourdillon. Noww
#hangs fone

Ngige:-- Asiwaju, Asiwaju-- hello,
hello--
Mtchewww--- this man na
agbero'oo-- chei-- he too like
gragra--
Make I call Rochas jare, all this
Yoruba people sef..

In 2011 when he was campaigning, Amosun promised free health care for children below age five, ditto the aged. he even promised pregnant mothers..... health sector in Ogun State has indeed failed totally. promises made to hoodwink the people in 2011 have
remained unfulfilled in 2013
going to 2014... pple are seriously complaining of failed health
promises..even children pay..old
people pay...we see it we feel it...

BY DAUD OLATUNJI
ABEOKUTA: The recent mid-term
assessment of the state of public
hospitals in Ogun State by the
Nigerian Medical Association has
shown that there is an abysmal
failure in the health sector
despite the fact that health is the
second on the seven-point
agenda of the government.

The governor shortly after he
was sworn-in as the executive
governor of the state, May 29,
2011 pledged that aged people
from 70 years and above,
children from zero to five years
as well as pregnant women shall
enjoy free healthcare . But, two
years after, the pledges remain
an utopian.

After the first 100 days in office,
the governor reiterated his
commitment to rejuvenate the
health sector, saying he has
declared a state of emergency
in the health sector but, more
than two years after, there seems
to be no change.

According to the state Chairman
of the NMA in the State, Dr.
Edward Jagun, the Ogun state
government has accepted that it
cannot provide the free health
care services which it promised
the people of Ogun state during
the electioneering campaign.

“Health is the second point on
the agenda but our mid-term
assessment shows an abysmal
failure. Primary, secondary and
tertiary healthcare remain
underfunded or unfunded which
have resulted into adhoc or make
shift services. The community
based health insurance services
has remained a “talk show” and
quality hospital services have
become a thing of the past.

Saturday Vanguard findings have
shown that from secondary to
tertiary care level, there are no
Boards. Also, Olabisi Onabanjo
University Teaching hospital in
Sagamu has no Chief Medical
Director as workers were still
being owed over 30 months’
salary arrears .

It was also observed that all the
hospitals owned by Ogun state
have MRI or CT scan, Digital Xray
or fluoroscopy or major
diagnostic equipments and
ultrasound scans except one
hospital that could provide
dialysis.

Further findings revealed that
doctors were being harrassed
by patients and their relatives
over cost of treating the poor
which they believe has been
taken care of by the government
as promised. And as a result of
this infrastructural putrefaction,
hospital workers
reportedly watch patients die
because of lack of facilities to
work with.

The NMA further alleged “poor
quality of investigations like X-
ray and other radiographic
investigations due to archaic
equipments being used; not
seeing patients on time due to
excess work load and burglary in
the hospitals.
“The Teaching Hospital has no
management boards and hence
for every decision to be taken,
the case has to get to the
commissioner who in turn will
pass it to the Governor.

“This infrastructural decay in all
strata is also intertwined with
lack of capacity development and
personnel afflictions which have
been on for some years
preceding this administration. If
there is perceived affliction by
the personnel, this will cascade
down to service provision
because the morale is going to
be heavily dampened.
“The Ogun state government has
committed a lot of infractions
against the medical doctors in
Ogun state and we can only beg
the government to forgive us our
sins”.

While tracing the root of the rot
in Ogun state health institutions,
the NMA state Chairman claimed
that the general decadence was
due to apathy on the part of the
government to improve the
healthcare services in Nigeria.
According to him,the neglect of
health institutions by Federal
Government permeated to
Ogun state with worsening
health indices in the gateway
state.

“Health is capital intensive and a
social contract between the
government and the people.
Efforts by private organizations is
just complimentary to the
government and should not be
seen as another alternative.
Healthcare cannot be left in the
hands of the private sector for
fear of exploitation. Where this
exists, the government serves as
a regulator with appropriate
health care financing.
The solution is not in building
new centers as the
administration wants to embark
upon and NMA says an
unequivocal no to this intended,
unnecessary spending spree.
Specialist centers only cater for
less than 10% of the people. It
will therefore be uneconomical
to plan for the minority and allow
the majority to die. The
government should strengthen
the existing institutions with
appropriate equipments and
personnel”.

But in a swift reaction, the state
government said it is doing its
best in the sector, saying it never
promised free health.
According to a statement sent
by the Information Officer in the
Ministry of Health, Seun
Akinlade,”government re -affirms
its commitment to the health
sector. There are activities going
on which include distribution of
$2m.USD of equipment to
hospitals, refurbishment and re-
equipping of dental centres in
Abeokuta, Ota, Ilaro, Sagamu and
Ijebu-Ode;complete overhaul of
laboratory and radio diagnostics
at Ijaye.

“Major initiatives that are being
finalized for imminent
commencement include the
Ogun State Community Based
Health Insurance Scheme; the
Ogun State Cancer Institute; a
major new Diagnostic Centre and
nine new general hospitals.
“We have just reformed our drug
procurement and distribution
system which will result in lower
healthcare costs for the general
public. Government plans to
continue the refurbishment of
our existing Primary Healthcare
Centres (PHCs) and Hospitals, and
further investment in healthcare
personnel and training.
“We urge our esteemed
healthcare workers to be patient
as we continue to address the
problems that have taken root
over the decades.We also urge
continued dialogue in seeking to
address specific issues raised by
the Nigeria Medical Association
(NMA) affecting its members”, the
statement stated.

Tony Nwoye

mascot87:
I am pained by the ingenuity of the so called NC, I will so love GEJ for life and make him my top best Nigerian president if he is SINCERE about the implementation of the NC final report that would be presented and ensuring that he does not give the national assembly the power to approve or disapprove the report.He should realize that the voice of the people is greater than that of the National assembly. We have the final say and we don't expect the national assembly to rubbish the collective decision of the people.The NC is the best for this country but do Mr president have the balls to ensure that it is implemented?

Will Jonathan not be going out of constitutional provisions if he so much decided/ensured that the committee's recommendations DID NOT get to NASS for approval??

The only problem with the national conference is the ratification of the committee's recommendations by National Assembly (NASS)

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Rubbish!!! even if it is in 10years time u'll keep on telling me Ogun plans this, Ogun plans that?? Why can't u tell me what Ogun State has done?. Rubbish

seanet02:
Dream On.... PDP is dead in Ogun State

PDP will win d next election in Ogun State insha Allah.

yeaahh dictator Amosun is losing it.

PDP

A former Deputy Governor of
Ogun State, Rafiu Ogunleye, on
Tuesday, defected to the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, with
thousands of his political
loyalists.

Mr. Ogunleye was the deputy
governor in the Olusegun Osoba
administration.
Mr. Ogunleye, a former leader of
the defunct All Progress
Congress, APC, made the public
decampment at the PDP
organised stakeholders/unity
rally held at the party’s
headquarters at Presidential
Boulevard, Abeokuta.

He was accompanied to the rally
by his wife and thousands of his
supporters, who came with
various banners expressing their
readiness to work round the
clock for the success of the PDP
at the 2015 general elections.
The former number two citizen
of the state, in his crossover
speech, explained that his
decision to join PDP followed
some unfavourable events he
witnessed in APC. He described
the PDP as a very progressive and
truly democratic.

He emphasised that, the “winner
take all” attitude of the state
governor, Ibikunle Amosun, was
a major factor that led to his
dumping of the APC. He lamented
that his group, Imole, which
contributed to the party’s
success in the last polls was
abandoned by the Amosun-led
government.
In a similar development, the
Ogun State Chairman of the PDP,
Dayo Bayo, while addressing the
large crowd, said. “The question
is why must we continue to leave
in hardship in the mist of
plenty. APC government should
give succour to the people of the
state or accept the fact that they
have failed the electorates and
relinquish power to the peoples’
friendly party.”

In his own speech, the Chairman,
South-West PDP Organisation and
Mobilisation Committee, Buruji
Kashamu, advised public office
holders not to play to the gallery.
“If they truly love our country
and have its interest at heart.
They must learn how to make
genuine and constructive
criticisms and offer advice
without necessarily playing to
the gallery. On the contrary, if
they think that they have better
ideas on how to do things, they
should either chip it in or wait till
the general elections in 2015 so
they can sell their ideas to the
electorate and get their
mandate.”

Dignitaries from outside the state
at the event included Ibrahim
Mantu (former Deputy Senate
President), Wale Oladipo
(National Secretary, PDP), and
Isola Filani (South-West Chairman
PDP).

As in the case of Amaechi, Police
had once again given reasons for
distrupting Bamidele's political
rally/ campaign. My thinking is
this, if Governor Fayemi can be
fingered out to be the one behind
Bamidele's unfortunate aborted
rally, it is safe to conclude that
President GEJ is responsible for
Amaechi travail.