Kwara people are poorer than ever before

Date: 2012-02-09

by Pius Abioje, University of Ilorin

Kwara State Governor, AbdulFatah Ahmed, supported the so-called fuel subsidy removal, like many other governors of course. To console the people, he said he is offering free primary and secondary school education, and cut the fees of Kwara State University (KWASU) by 30 per cent for Kwara State indigenes.

Is someone a Kwaran indigene if born in Kwara by Onitsha parents who have lived in Kwara most of their lives? Only Governor Ahmed can tell. I am particularly concerned that the fraud called "fuel subsidy removal" has terribly aggravated corruption and poverty in Nigeria beyond the palliative measures announced by Governor Ahmed.

The question is: What percentage of Kwarans have children in KWASU? Even now, with the level of inflation in the land, is KWASU now affordable to ordinary Kwarans whose standard of living has been drastically diminished by inevitable commodity price escalation occasioned by "fuel subsidy removal"? Was primary and secondary education not free in Kwara? What does free primary and secondary education mean to a young worker who cannot save to acquire and equip a marital home, because of hyper-inflation?

Within a period of less than one year, prices have jumped twice; first with the promised but unpaid minimum wage, and then with the government imposed fuel price hike.  In the midst of these inflationary bombardments, we see our rulers’ wives playing the Santa Claus, dishing-out gifts to party loyalists to perpetuate servitude. At what point must a people decide to free themselves from anti-people government policies, nationally and locally?

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

SAPZ Project     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Micheal Imoudu     Ayinke Saka     Kunle Akogun     Ghali Alaaya     Abdullahi Samari     Vasolar Consultoria     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     Shonga Farm Project     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Ganiyu Abolarin     Bond     Idofin     Ilorin Emirate     Durosinlohun Atiku     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     UITH     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Borgu     Azeez Salawu     Kwara State Television     Abdulwaheed Musa     Ijagbo Health Centre     Raheem Adaramaja     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Dunmade     Ajeigbe     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Kazeem Oladepo     Yaru     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Farouk Salim     Kayode Ogunlowo     Lanre Issa Onilu     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     Radio SBS     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Ibrahim Taiwo     Muhammed Abdullahi     Olatinwo     Lotus Bank     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Isa Aremu     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Muhammad Yahya     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Alaiye     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Naira Redesign     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Tinubu     Government House     Sunday Otokiti     MATTA Girls Foundation     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Olofa Of Offa     AGILE Programme     Muritala Olarewaju     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     Abdulkarim Adisa     Deji Ajani     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     Umar Gunu     Kwara State Polytechnic     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Alapansapa     Ilorin East     Ademola Kiyesola     Ope Saraki     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Alfa Modibo Belgore     Frootify     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     KWSIEC     Peter Amogbonjaye     Gabriel Fashanu     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     EndSARS     Kwara Volleyball Association     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Mubarak Oladosu     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Christian Association Of Nigeria     KFA     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Aliyu U. Tilde     Transition Implementation Committee     Mohammed Saidu     General Hospital, Offa     Olusola Saraki     Aso Ofi     Sunday Fagbemi     TIC     Esuwoye     Bayo Onimago     Oko     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Owode Market     Smart School     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Yakubu Shaaba     Grillo     Tunji Oyawoye     Babaloja-General     AbdulRaheem Ahmad Shayi     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Folorunsho Erubu     Tosin Saraki     Ilesha-Gwanara     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Oloye     Kisra     Ayegbeni     Oke-opin     Isiaka Danmeromu     Salihu Ajia     Chief Imam Of Offa     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Henry Olaosebikan     Erubu     Patigi Regatta     Www.Kwarareports.com     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Toyin Falola     Ijakadi     Edret Sabi Abel     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Royal FM     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Wale Oladepo     Split Diamond Interchange     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Joseph Bamigboye     Saidu Isa     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Kwara 2023     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Aliyu Muhammed     Modibo Kawu