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Many comments here shows how people don't take time to read before commenting, the guy is only spending 10 yrs behind bar which i believe he deserves, he is only stealing that amount because he does not have access to very large amount, also considering other things he did with the phone, he deserves what he got

in nigerian university, u have to go for PGD computer science first.

good car, i am interested but has the car been cleared?

Many people's comment here are not objective and very bias,you being a victim of police brutality has not made nigerian army better,both of them lack discipline required of a force.

If truly he stole,I don't pity him, but jungle justice should be condemned outrightly.

Vimto drink I like the way it makes the tongue reddish

Hi is d car already in nigeria n can I pay 1.2million.

My geography teacher was named achipelago

Did I hear you say computer science?computer science is a very innovative and interesting course to study,the best course in the whole world.

The part i like most is the ice cream part, Mama Ice cream,she must be very industrious.

RIP If it is true

Oshiomhole retires  Perm Sec over N300,000 contract
 
January 7, 2013 | 9:18 pm
News

Benin – Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo said on Monday that he retired a permanent secretary over what he described as alleged “irresponsible act”. 

Oshiomhole justified the compulsory retirement of Mr Alhassan Ikloha, as the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Environment , in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Peter Okhiria, in Benin. 

The governor spoke at a meeting held with permanent secretaries in the state civil service at the Government House. He explained the retired officer contracted out the Museum Ground at Kings Square at a paltry sum. 

“The retired Permanent Secretary gave out the Kings Square premises in the heart of the city to a multinational company to do business for 31 days at a ridiculous rate of N300,000 throughout the duration.” Oshiomhole described the action as “the height of irresponsibility. 

“I have a duty and obligation to explain why we had to retire the permanent secretary and hope that this will guide you on how you manage your own ministries. 

“We are all at the mercy of the Edo people and we would have our jobs secured to the extent that we are able to competently manage our various portfolios in a way our people get maximum benefit. 

“While going round in Benin City you will agree that in spite of all investments we have made, the city has remained substantially unclean. “We have refuse in so many places, our walk ways have been taken over by all manners of persons. 

“People are parking vehicles on the roads we have expanded thereby denying our people free flow of traffic. “I have even seen people converting highway to permanent garage where they sell vehicles and you find things like vehicle for sale as if we have expanded the road to serve as a permanent motor park. 

“Public places like the Oba Ovonranwen Square has been turned to refuse dump and across the state the markets are unclean. 

“And I have had series of meetings with the ministry to take their jobs a little more seriously,” he added. The governor said that he had prior to Christmas warned them to ensure that all the street lights were working perfectly. 

“Because the government could not use tax payers money to erect street lights only to have them not working because someone is not doing what is suppose to be done. 

“I do not believe we need to hire the services of a contractor to replace a bulb on a street light. I believe our civil servants have the competence to at least replace a bulb. 

“I also do not believe that we need contractors to get a mechanic to fix a generator which is faulty. “I do not believe we need to hire a contractor to help us procure diesel to ensure generators are working in order to ensure that the street lights work. 

“We have done everything we can to make the ministry take their jobs seriously, but I regret that in spite of this, most of the time we still have areas where street lights ought to be on. 

“But they are not on because there are all kinds of things I consider excuses why street lights are not on.” 

The governor, therefore, advised civil servants in the state to provide creative leadership in their various ministries. Oshiomhole enjoined them to reflect on the challenges of providing good governance in the state. 

He noted that he had seen from records that most civil servants even had the best of degrees from high profile universities “better than you will find in the private sector, but the truth remains that the civil service is not working optimally. 

“We cannot get good governance if the civil service is not ready to play its part and the civil service is the official memory of government and beyond the vagaries of politics the civil service ought to ensure policy stability. 

“You are to ensure that government policies are executed, you are responsible for the formulation of agreements, MOU’s and to ensure they are also implemented. 

Oshiomhole also informed the permanent secretaries that in the next few weeks they would be accounting officers of their ministries until the appointment of commissioners in February and ordered them to take their job seriously.

 “In 2013 we cannot do things exactly the way we did them in 2012 or in the past, we must revisit our attitude to work and take the state as their own by doing their best to keep the state going.’’ http:///kHfTo2iE

these projects are great Thumps up

agreed with many of his positions on issues,but have to disagree on some especially one involving chief awolowo and akintola,anyways overall it was a great performance for him as a moderator.

Despite the fact that I don't fully agree with the president,I don't think you have to attack the president like that,can't you disagree on issues without being disrespectful?.

Demdem: Another extremely daft statement from our world renowned retardeen. No point deceiving ourselves, Ebele has no corruption to fight.
The dumb is simply out of touch.

It's attitude that made him and his aso gluttons to consume approx 1billion worth of food this year.

Ox has lost form,this is not the Ox I used to know

You are wrong,Romario won the world cup in 1994 thesame year he won the ballon d or

caukerzee: you could as well say torres deserves the ballon d or. He won euros and UCL. Geoge best and romario didnt lift a trophy when they won it. Or you could say aguero should win the ballon dor since he won the leauge like ronaldo. Come up with a more constructive argument....NEXT PLEASE.

I am free with my parents,and that has not made me not to respect them.

what he is saying is obvious which i think everybody should know,that has not added to his professionalism,you do not have to be an economist to know that,the man has not impressed me in his major task.

I still rate sule lamido,akpabio more than the governors on the list.

Mimiko should not be on the list, if we consider how much he has done,over inflation of contract and debt profile of the state. fashola to me haven't done much compared to the IGR that is being generated in lagos and allocation from FG.

Why must wenger insist on using a single striker in all matches?,I still find that difficult to understand

what is the duty of National identity management commission? it is not enough for a country to just conduct a charade as it is being done in the past, let every citizen registered in a nearby office as it is being done for the purpose of election and create a mechanism to strike out double registration, and punish people that register more than once, also every new born should be registered as they are given birth, let there be a database of all citizens, that is when i believe they are doing something meaningful, not the ones that are being done in the past.

I doubt if many people commenting here understand this little passage,The Father died trying to save his son,or you expect him to leave him to die .

The Saddest part is that many lagosians have a different opinion.

kulikuli26: Honestly it beat my imagination hw folks come here praising fashola cos for me lagos state gets so much interms of revenue which doesn't match the devt on ground.the state govt enter concession agreement to build major roads and public utilities are even privatised,yet the state rank high interms of debts,den u ask ursef where is the money goinwe must begin to ask questions its obvious this is not adding up at all.

Nobody is saying fashola has not done anything,but with the given resources,Lagos ought to have been far developed than this,let us set standard for our politicians and stop hailing mediocrity.

Is it not under his watch that the people's will were subverted?.

take dat: Kudos to Fashola for allowing the Lagos State Judiciary its independence. Most state governors in Nigeria have pocketed their judiciary that election results will never be upturned in favour of the opposition party.

Really enjoyed it those days,good old days.

My all time best footballer is Zinedine zidane.

In terms of achievement,so far OBJ is still the best,even though still far from great in the real sense.

This support the acclamation for state police by some governors, the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages,i think nigeria is too big to be handled by federal police alone, we need the support of state in the handling of policing, this could also provide healthy competitions among the governors in the provision of security in the country.

the recharge card is a campaign strategy,but i don't think he should be judge on that, cos that is what the people wants from him, but out of all the contestant we will have to choose the least evil,Mimiko has been tested and he has failed, the choice should come between OKE AND AKEREDOLU.