Governor’s Lodge: Ekiti and Kaduna States The new Kaduna Governors lodge that was commissioned yesterday, October 28, 2014 was built at a cost of 9.6 billion naira. Out of this amount, N277, 179 was spent on furnishing while N257, 694,784 was spent on Sewage treatment plant. The lodge is a two story building with 13 rooms. I also learnt that Plateau State another PDP State built its own Governor’s lodge at the cost of N10 billion naira while Bayelsa State Governor’s lodge is in the region of N20 billion naira. Details of these buildings shall be provided later. Ekiti-State Governors lodge is a 4 storey building of a basement, 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. There are about 40 rooms comprising of 8 bedrooms, 3 waiting rooms, 7 living rooms, 2 banquet halls, media room, Governors office, 1st Ladies office, security rooms, one big conference room and main dining hall. There are 7 staff quarters, drivers’ quarters and relaxation areas, a gatehouse and a multipurpose lawn tennis and badminton court. There is an helipad and a very large compound with 2 kilometers of asphalt road to the lodge. All of these, including the much exaggerated furniture, fittings and beddings put together cost over N2 billion naira even though Mr. Fayose and his aides continued to inflate the figures to N3.3 billion. In Kaduna state, there are many unemployed people and despite vacancies in the Civil Service, no major recruitment has taken place in the last 25 years except those done underground while the Fayemi administration recruited over 1000 workers (including teachers) of various cadres into all departments of the Civil service in 4 years. Fayemi created other jobs like the Peace Corps, EKSMA and Youth Volunteers, while many youths were trained under various schemes like Odua/EEDA Skill acquisition scheme and Youth in Commercial Agriculture, YCAD which Mr. Fayose recently applauded. Fayemi took care of the elderly by paying a monthly stipend of N5,000 to them. He executed in 4 years, over 2,000 projects in all 131 towns in Ekiti State among which was the construction, rehabilitation and reconstruction of about 1,038 kilometre of federal, state and local government roads. Now the question is this, why are PDP apologists in Ekiti shouting as if Fayemi has committed murder by bequeathing an enduring and befitting legacy to the State why they have suddenly become dumb and deaf to the colossal waste in Kaduna state? Is it because Ekiti belonged to the opposition APC and Kaduna belongs to the ruling PDP? What is the level of poverty in Ekiti State now compared to that of Kaduna and other PDP States? They argued for their own selfish interest that Ekiti State must remain in the backwaters and a jungle while Kaduna State is an old state that should develop when they don’t even know the meaning of development! Talking about debts according to the (Debt Management Ofiice) DMO, Kaduna State is owing a sum of $215.6 million while Ekiti is owing N$36.1million. The hypocrites will exaggerate this as if the world has come to an end in Ekiti while they turn a blind eye to the worse economic conditions in PDP States. The PDP pretenders should tender an unreserved apology to Governor. Kayode Fayemi for the embarrassment the lies against him has caused all Ekiti home and abroad because he deserves praises for bequeathing a lasting legacy to the State. This apology is also necessary when we have discovered that Mr. Fayose who made the loudest noise has been sleeping in the Governors lodge on the same bed that he lied Fayemi bought for 20 million naira where he even hold parties with women of easy virtues. Fayose is a man lacking in integrity indeed! If the PDP refuses to apologise to Dr. Kayode Fayemi, history will be unkind to them and their generation. We want to ask Mr. Fayose what programmes he has for Ekiti people. Enough of what Fayemi did and did not do while in office! What does Fayose want to do for Ekiti people? We are tired of Fayemi bought iro and buba, Fayemi ate too much rice in the government house kitchen. Enough of lies. Fayose should stop deceiving us.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:13:12 +0000
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