₦airaland Forum

KingEbukasBlog:
This is child abuse not a preparation

Quakertellicus1:
You people paid GSM companies high ampunts of money for bad service back then.

But did they not use the money to improve things?

You Nigerians...you want awoof....but you never consider that the price of that awoof means people not getting paid for doing their jobs, and we being unable to buy the machinery we need to make things better.

falconey:
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Blaqsmith:
Thanks. But I just wanted to be free. I've been a prisoner of my own conscience deceiving her all along. She deserves to know the truth.

But why can't you date an atheist?
Why do you think dating theist is a better choice?
Where is your God when I lost my brother after fervent prayers? Ml
What is your God doing to help the homeless and hungry children on the streets?

G1gbolahan:
So every misinformed reader will easily be fooled by this piece and that is why I will take the time to address each issue raised;

1) Firstly, it is true that the governors does not have commissioners and the governor himself has explained why; It makes no sense to have a state where there are no funds to carry out governance as in Ondo and Ekiti but enough funds to pay commissioners who due to funds paucity, actually have nothing to do. The governor explained that he has not drawn salaries since last year, if he had commissioners he would not be able to keep their salaries away from them. So any body will prefer to have commissioners, how I see this, Ogbeni Aregbesola is making a sacrifice some other governors are not willing to make, for the state's finances.

2) As regards the local government elections, there is a subsisting court order against the elections and until that is set aside in the courts, Ogbeni will not ignore the courts and conduct elections. Especially when even states like Lagos that have no court injunctions have yet to conduct same elections.

3) On the jailing of students, while I do not have the complete facts on it, I know for certain that unless you are saying that there should no longer be retribution for doing wrong, there is no point to comment on there. And that some are reckless with Opon Imo as with every policy everywhere does not render the policy failed. Be guided.

4) On one hand, we complained of the dilapidated structures under which pupils were crammed into in Osun before Aregbesola. On the other hand, we complain when government finally demolishes those and move the students into world class structures? What exactly do we want? Has this writer seen the schools Osun is moving students to and the facilities? He has nothing to say about those? Let's also pretend this point was not made. Unless you're saying you prefer Osun children in those mud houses they were learning before.

5) You say the school uniform did not go down well with everybody. So I ask, how is the same now functioning without problem? The uniform was done to promote unity and remove the segregation that was already rising among students in schools of varying qualities. It is fully embraced today by all parties. Say another one.

6) As at today, I can confirm to you that no governor in the entire South West has commissioned as much projects as Aregbesola has this year. So where are the abandoned projects? One of the criticisms Ogbeni gets is that while workers are owed salaries, roads and other projects are being built. And Aregbesola has always retorted that workers represent only a percentage of his people and so salaries and developmental projects must move on at similar pače. Every week for the past few months if our writer was observant, Aregbesola has been inspecting sites particularly roads/bridges/schools with some commissioned and others with work ongoing. No one can say projects have been abandoned in Osun and expect me to take him serious. To be honest, that is a lie.
7) The Hijab crisis in the state is not the doing of Aregbesola as the governor has repeatedly stated but it is understandable that some people abhor the truth when it goes against their narrative. The crisis was a fallout of a court judgement secured by the muslim community and the CAN responding in an uncivil manner by inciting illegality in our schools. At that point, Aregbesola got involved to stop the campaign being promoted by CAN and since then, the issue has died down. So Ogbeni Aregbesola actually came in to douse the tension, he did not create it. But say what you like please.
You say there is nothing productive in the school feeding programme but World Bank recently appraised Osun for it, and Kaduna, Abia and the FG are following Osun's steps on the programme now. Do your research well, mister.
9) That a governor wishes so much development for a small state like Osun cannot be termed "misplaced priorities". Opon Imo has been a success in the state, the state has successfully built schools whose standard will now be copied nationwide, agriculture has become embraced locally and when the Federal Government supports with its part funding, Osun will have the first airport maintenance hub in the entire West Africa opening the state to serious business opportunites and opening the state's tourism potential. If that is what you call "misplaced priorities" compared to where Osun was coming from under the PDP, we are all for misplaced priorities in Osun please. Thank you.

10) Backlog of salaries is an issue not any governor is happy of. Yet President Muhammadu Buhari has said himself that with the current state of the economy, 27 out of 36 states can not afford salaries of workers, so do not make this problem sound peculiar to Osun. It is not not a problem for Osun alone and does not in any way arise from Aregbesola's management of the state. If at all, Aregbesola has managed the situation well by opening books to labour, thereby using transparency to win trust of labour and avoid strike action like we have in Ondo and Ekiti, where even the governor is on strike.

11) This rumour has been long proven to not be true. And the fact you said "reports in some quarters" also shows you are basing your "failures" on hearsay which is a journalistic failure.

I hope I have been able to correct the writer if he did not intentionally wish to malign Ogbeni Aregbesola but more importantly, I hope this addresses the readers who could have been misinformed by this pack of falsehoods. Let us strive to ask questions more and be more accurate in our writings for posterity will judge us. This desperation to soil Ogbeni's name is unwarranted and condemnable

amtaken:
My Ministry pays us the following allowances:

1. Monthly Hazard Allowance.

2. Monthly Journal Allowance.

3. Wardrobe Allowance payable every March.


4. Leave allowance every September.

5. Bar Conference Allowance in August.


6. Monthly Impress.



These are the things that motivate us to work round the clock.


Stop criticising these people for seeking for their allowances.


If Buhari, Adeosun, National Assembly Members, Senators, Governors and other Government officials can be paid allowances, what makes you think the workers shouldn't be paid?


Why did they omit it in the 2016 budget? Why did they not omit their own allowances?


Those of you supporting the Minister For Finance on this, how would you feel if your rights and benefits are stripped off you?


DONT MIND THEM THEY ARE JOBLESS IDIOTS THAT RUN TO THESE PEOPLE FOR HELP
EVEN WE BUSINESS MEN DEPENDS ON THE MONEY FROM THESE AVERAGE NIGERIANS WORKING
IN GRADE A MINISTRIES LIKE FINANCE, CBN etc
KEMI SHOULD LOOK FOR A WAY TO CREATE MORE AVERAGE NIGERIAN THAN DESTROYING THEM
HER POLICIES HAS KILLED AVERAGE NIGERIANS IN BAKING SECTOR.
PLEASE PAY THEM SO THAT THERE WILL BE MONEY INCIRCULATION.

khristals:
oh, have they been adopting a trial and error system?

Jamean:
Unequally yoked.

You are not even a Christian (Christ-like) in the actual sense of the word otherwise you won't even consider a muslim lady. If you genuinely seek God for a partner without an idol in your heart He will give you yours. Of course not a Muslim lady.