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.

Olatunji Moronfoye     Garba Ado Sanni     Kwara Politics     Saka Adeyemo     Saka Abimbola Isau     Aro Yahaya     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     08001000100     Kannike     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Okasanmi Ajayi     Saka Aleshinloye     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Ghali Alaaya     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Bankole Omishore     Rasaq Jimoh     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Dauda Adesola     Tunji Olawuyi     Samuel Adedoyin     Sodiya     SWAN     Ilorin Like-Minds     Ashiru     Salman Suleiman     Akeem Olatunji     Ahmed Bayero     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Mamman Saba Jibril     IESA     Ilofa     Mike Omotosho     Manzuma     07039448763     Oye Tinuoye     Sabi     Agboola Abdulraheem     Onilorin     Isiaka Alikinla     T And K FOODS     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Moses Adekanye     Kwara 2019     Ijagbo     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Ola Falade     Okedare     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Hamza Usman     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Michael Nzwekwe     Principal Private Secretary     AbdulRauf Keji     Wasiu Onidugbe     Kabir Shagaya     Basit Olatunji     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Village Alive Development Association     Bukola Ajikobi     Abdulkareem Alabi     Ali Ahmad     Okin High School     VADA     College Of Education     Code Of Conduct Bureau     KWASSIP     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Ethical College     Ilorin Curfew     Ajayi Okasanmi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Shagari     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     SUBEB     Fola Consultant     Ilofa     Ogbondoroko     Chief Of Staff     Sunday Popo-Ola     Eleja     Aisha Buhari     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Arandun     Vasolar Consortium     Hijaab     Kwara State Fire Service     Oba Abdulrahim     Bureau Of Lands     Grillo     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Olaitan Adefila     Kwara University Of Education     ASMAU PLAZA     Kola Adesina     Stephen Fasakin     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Malete     Adanla-Irese     Musa Alhassan Buge     Samuel Adedoyin     General Hospital, Offa     Frootify     Najim Yaasin     Hassan Oyeleke     Suleiman Mora Omar     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Adisa Logun     Kemi Adeosun     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Folashade Omoniyi     Oyun     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     IFK     JAMB     Aliyu Umar     Maja     Dan Masanin     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Ibrahim Abikan     Bashir Adigun     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Olupako Of Share     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Ilorin Durbar     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Femtech     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     Ilorin Talaka Parapo (ITP)     Col. Adedipe     Iyeru Grammar School     Kazeem Oladepo     Seed Technologies     LEAH Charity Foundation     Igosun     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Monkey Pox     Yusuf Badmus     GANZY     CCB     Egbewole     S.O. Opowoye     Simeon Sayomi