Senators from the three
senatorial districts of Kogi state on Monday inaugurated a Save Kogi Group,
ahead of the 2019 general elections.
Senator Dino Melaye representing
Kogi West was appointed Chairman, Board of Trustees with Friday Makama as
Director General of the group, while former Kogi State Commissioner for
Information, Dr. Tom Ohikere was appointed as Director of Media.
The group urged the governor,
Yahaya Bello, to rescind his decision to sell the state properties, while
asking him to embark on infrastructural development of the state.
They wondered how the state
execute had in the last two years failed to put infrastructure in place only
for him to sell those set up by his predecessors.
The lawmakers also questioned the
two year verification exercise of the state workforce, stating that despite
massive retrenchment as a result of the ill-fated exercise, the state was under
huge debts.
They explained that ‘Save Kogi
Project’ is a child of necessity, adding that “of what essence was the
verification of Kogi workers that after spending a whooping N1 billion, nothing
came out of the exercise”.
Senator Mohammed Ohiare, Atai
Aidoko were unanimous over the plight of Kogi people, stressing that the people
were waiting to be rescued.
“Kogi State has never had things
so bad since 1999 and something would be done this time,” Aidoko insisted.
Ohiare emphasised that Yahaya
Bello did not represent the power shift they fought for, stating that “I have
always been on the struggling side. I have been the brain behind power shift.
Bello was not the kind of power shift we struggled for, hence, those from the
eastern Senatorial district should excuse us”.
Director General of the group and
former Chairman of Public Accounts, Kogi State House of Assembly, Friday Makama
assured that the group would fetch critical stakeholders at home and abroad to
re-position the state in 2019.
This is a good one. Yahaya Bello is a disaster for the entire Kogi and a catastrophe for the Ebiras. He and his group only come to steal. Sentiment apart, Kogi need change 2019 but let it come from Kogi central.
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