You Are A Serial Liar,You Owed Workers 38 Months Salary Plead With FG Not To Release The Last Tranche Of Paris Club Says Kogi Governor Will Still Siphon The Money ;Kogi First A new pressure group in Kogi ,Known as Kogi First, said for Kogi Governor,Yahaya Bello to continue to insist of not owing workers in the state,showed he is an unrepentant liar who does not deserve to occupy public office,more of an exalted office of a state governor,advising the authorities to hold the balance of Paris club behind for a new administration in Kogi, as it will still be prone to diversion when released It is not contestable and glaringly in the public domain, that some staff of the state government have not taken salaries since the inception of this administration in Kogi,while others on his preferred civil service reform list, took salaries last in November 2018 Kogi First avered that it will be tantamount to extension of suicidal attempt on the part of kogi citizens in the public service, and naked poverty, if any tangible funds in the volume of tranches or balance of bailout is released to Kogi governor,who is already in the news in Nigeria over his lack of judicious use of public funds,lack of accountability and transparency in the running of the affairs of the state in the last three and half years.
The group said for a governor in that caliber to pronounce in the public of not owing any workers salaries,showed his lack of remorse,sincerity of purpose and complete disservice to the people of the state Workers salaries and pensioners had been a mirage and a privilege in kogi since the inception of the current administration, that had resulted in the series of death,sickness and decapitation of all categories of workers in the state Local Government joint allocation funds had become a jamboree for the state government to deploy in funding thugs and thuggery activities,purchase of needless vehicles for party supporters and award of bogus and fake contracts in the state in the last three years.
The group said they are not unaware of his empty promises of payment of outstanding workers salaries, before December this year,as a ploy to deceive the civil service into playing to his hand for further persecution Kogi First warned workers of the state and local government not to venture into re-electing kogi governor for a second term,as the worst will happen if any attempt to return him to the seat of power in the state by November this year “A government that is full of deciet particularly in the management of public funds,should not be trusted for another second term as that will be tantamount to selling the common patrimony of kogi state”
” It is in governor Yahaya Bello’s administration that highly revered senior civil servants in the category of Directors,Permanent secretaries and other high ranking public servants are subjected into climbing machines popularly known as “Okada” to their various offices with official impress meant to run the offices,held for years by the state government” ” Commissioners and Special advisers who are top political office holders in this government, move from one hotel and restaurant or the other, to buy food on credit, basically of their inability to run the domestic department in their various houses, as their wardrobe allowances and other entitlements were been denied without any genuine reasons ” “Even the traditional class that fall prey to governor Yahaya Bello’s gimmick could not access their monthly allowances as at when due, and yet to be implemented and politically motivated elevation of classes of chiefs had become a mirage,aside stipend from the government coffers whenever they are cajoled into allegiance by the government” ”
A government that is soaked in high level corruption and mass looting of state resources,through diversion,lied virement and over inflated contracts,does not have anything to offer when given another opportunity” Kogi First dared the APC to concede to Bello’s haywire lobby for the party’s ticket, and risk losing the state to another party,as the governor can not even win a councillrship seat in Okene in a free,fair and credible election The group said the only panacea that will guarantee good governance in kogi state, is to remove governor Yahaya Bello from the seat of government in Kogi,as the people are already saturated with his style of leadership and maladminstration