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.

Democracy Day     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     LEAH Charity Foundation     Teachers Specific Allowance     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Baba Isale     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Yeketi     Okeose Christian Cementary     S.O. Opowoye     Lucky Omoluwa     Abdulwahab Oba     ENetSuD     Risikat Lawal     Bukola Ajikobi     Balikis Jawondo     HICA     Maigida Soludero Transit     Adebara     Gaa Olobi     Yusuf Lawal     Gbenga Adebayo     Saraki     Modibo Kawu     Aso Ofi     Salihu S. Yaru     Abubakar Baba     Muhammed Akanbi     John Olajide Adedipe     Tayo Awodiji     Muhammad Fawaz Abubakar     Amos Bajeh     Yakub Lai Gobir     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Amuda Bembe     Toyin Sanusi     Segun Ogunsola     Muhammed Aliyu     Abikan     Bibire Ajape     Gamji Members Association     Ajia-Bako     Femi Ogunsola     Kwara Hotel     Emir Of Yashikira     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Taofeek Ibraheem     Usman Alkali Baba     Umar Gunu     Mustapha Akanbi     Agor Market     Kola Bukoye     Abubakar Lah     Yakubu Dogara     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Gani Saadu     Azeez Salawu     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Musa Aibinu     QuickWin     Kulende-UITH     David Oyedepo     Abdulfatai Baakini     Tunji Oyawoye     IEDPU     Javed Khan     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Agboola Abdulraheem     Iyabo Adewuyi     Bello Abubakar     Musa Alhassan Buge     Kwara 2019     Kunbi Titiloye     Valsolar     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Ramat Oganija     Saliu Tunde Bello    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

KWAFFA     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Samuel Adaramola     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Computer Based Test     SARS     Irepodun     Kola Ologbondiyan     Edret Sabi Abel     Shehu Salau     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Minister     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Senate President     Saheed Akinwumi     Adesoye     Ajayi Okasanmi     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Na\'Allah     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Lawal Olohungbebe     Adamu Atta     Clara Nwachukwu     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Face Masks     Agboola Babatunde     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Shehu Raheem Adaramaja     Donatus Ejidike     Wahab Egbewole     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Egbewole     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Tanke Flyover Bridge     Ibrahim Taiwo     Simeon Sayomi     Mahfouz Adedimeji     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Logun     Alagbado     Afolasade Opeyemi Kemi     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Kolo     ITEM 7     Lola Olabayo     Bahago     Kola Adesina     Dorcas Afeniforo     Ben Duntoye     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Centre For Digital Economy     Ilorin Airport     Dele Belgore     Ayo Opadokun     Daud Adeshola     HYPPADEC     Teachers Specific Allowance     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Adeniyi Ojo     Yahaya Seriki     Bolakale Saka     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Musa Alhassan Buge     TETFUND     Olohungbebe     All Peoples Party     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike