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.

University Road     Onilorin     Rueben Parejo     Atiku     NURTW     Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Unicontinental Construction Company     Shehu Adaramaja     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Elerin Of Adanla     Afeyin-Olukuta     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Onikijipa     Olabanji Orilonishe     Rachael Obisesan     Abdulraheem Olesin     Ilorin.Info     Alanamu     Adekunle David Dunmade     JUSUN     Aso Ofi     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Funmilayo Mohammed     Share/Tsaragi     Bashir Adigun     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     John Mayokun Dada     Oja-Oba     Saadu Alanamu     Diagnostic Centre     Muritala Olarewaju     Mohammed Ibrahim     James Ayeni     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez     Zubair Folorunsho Erubu     ASKOMP     Kale Bayero     NULGE     Kehinde Boyede     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Olaitan Buraimoh     Budo Egba     Halimah Perogi     Ado Ibrahim     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Muyideen Ajani Bello     New Model Police Station     Gbugbu International Market     Elections     Lateef Alagbonsi     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Issa Baba     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Peter Obi     Saka Onimago     Olaosebikan     Isapa     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Park     Funmilayo Zubair     Ayedun     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Emir Of Lafiagi     Sayomi     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Kwara State Governor     Aremu Odolaye     Age AbdulKareem     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ilorin Metro Park     Village Alive Development Association     Jani Ibrahim     NFAI     Monthly Sanitation     Makama     Abdullahi Atanda     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Solomon Edojah     Omoniyi Ayinla     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Alaiye     Kwara Consultative Forum     Lanre Aremu     March 28     COVID     Halimah Perogi     Saheed Akinwumi     Pius Abioje     Saliu Ajia     Bareke     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Ghali Alaaya     Frootify     Michael Imoudu National Institute For Labour Studies     Justina Oha     COEASU     Alikinla     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Ibrahim Bio     The Herald     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Moro     Nupe     Ope Saraki     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Bashiru Makama     Undergraduate Bursary     Aminat Omodara     Funmilayo Mohammed     Sheikh Alimi     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Akorede     Agboola Babatunde     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Atunwa     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Mubarak Oladosu     Kwara United     Paul Odama     Saka Isau     Abdulwahab Oba     Valsolar Consortium     Taofik Mustapha     Baruba     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Shehu Jimoh     Omupo     Stephen Fasakin     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     TIC     Kassim Babamale     Ishola Abdullahi     GANZY     Idi-Ape     S.O. Opowoye     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Jare Olatundun     Victor Gbenga Yusuf