Kwara people are poorer than ever before
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?
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Oke-Ero Council Of The Wise Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency Mumeen Lah Sulyman Age AbdulKareem Hausa Kwara Basketball Association Bisi Oyeleke Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations Shururat Olatinwo Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike Kayode Ogunlowo Opobiyi Amuda Musbau Timothy Olatunde Fadipe March 18 Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria Kwabes Agbarere Hamid Bobboyi Olatunde Oyeyiola Col. Taiwo ENetSuD Abubakar Usman Jos Funmilayo Oniwa S.O. Opowoye Baba Isale Raji AbdulRasaq JAMB Ilesha-Baruba Owo Isowo FERMA Tayo Awodiji Lanre Aremu Bayo Mohammed Onimode Muhammed Abdullahi Idowu Laro Isiaq Khadeejah Hassan A. Saliu Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari Haruna Olawale Sulaiman Shehu Adaramaja Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed Segun Ogunsola Mutawali Of Ilorin Maryam Nurudeen Al-Hikmah Radio Ajasse-Ipo Centre For Digital Economy Ope Saraki Baba Idris Sheikh Alimi Kayode Yusuf Agboola Abdulraheem Guber Aspirant Ibrahim Bio Musbau A. Akanji Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku Mohammed Halidu Musa Aibinu Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf Shehu Alimi Foundation Abegunde Goke Iyabo Adewuyi Admiralty Villa Suleiman Idris Kubra Kazum Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen Amuda Aluko Shuaibu Yaman NIPR Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs Biliaminu Aliu Bayo Lawal Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku Oluranti Idowu

