Security votes: Kwara, Plateau govts fault Obi's claims

Date: 2017-05-07

The Kwara State Government has faulted the argument of a former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, who claimed that security votes are sources of waste in states.

Obi had last week demanded that governors should be made to account for their security votes.

But the Kwara State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Babatunde Ajeigbe in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents in Ilorin, on Friday, disagreed that security vote is a drainpipe.

Ajeigbe who said he did not know the amount voted for Governor Adulfatah Ahmed as security vote in the 2017 budget, however said security vote is used to address security matters.

He added that the fund is being used to support security agencies in carrying out their statutory duties and to provide vehicles, equipment and other operational logistics for security agencies.

He said, "Security vote is used for what it is meant for and that is security matters. It is used for security issues, to ensure that we have a less criminal environment.

"In Kwara State, there is a security council which has as members, heads of various security agencies and headed by the governor.

"They meet on regular basis. It is used to support security agencies in terms of logistics such as vehicles, equipment and task forces that handle security matters.

"I do not have an idea of how much was budgeted as security vote for this year." Efforts to ascertain the amount of security vote for 2017 proved abortive as the Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Dr. Ali Ahmad and the Chairman, House Committee on Information, Mr. Saheed Popoola did not pick their calls or respond to their text messages as of the time of filing the story.

The Speaker of the Plateau State House, Mr. Peter Azi, also justified the need for governors to spend security votes on anything that could threaten the peace of the state.

Azi, who also failed to disclose the amount the governor collects as security vote said, "If I am to tell you how much he spends as security vote, it means I will have to tell you all the strategies of security itself. I know that security agencies in Plateau State are doing well."

Also the Director of Press in the Plateau State Government House, Dr. Emmanuel Nanle, noted that Obi is entitled to his opinion but insisted that security vote is not a waste.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Bola Magaji     Adegoke Bamidele     Salihu Alhaji Musa     Okin Biscuits     Sunday Popo-Ola     Shuaibu Yaman     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Femi Oladiji     Unilorin FM     Saheed Alakoso     Firdaos Amasa     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Hamidu Olowo     Onilu     Kale Bayero     Ilorin Muslim Community     Ojuekun Sarumi     Simeon Sayomi     All Peoples Party     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     ITP     Agbarere     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Alfa Belgore     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Garba Dogo     Sherif Sagaya     Baba Idris     AbdulRazaq AbduMajeed Alaro     Kale Kawu     Quranic Recitation Competition     Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore     Bisi Oyeleke     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Kwara Liberation Group     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Halimat Yusuf     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Tunji Folami     Eghe Igbinehin     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Fatimah Abdulkadir     FERMA     Lai Gobir     Dorcas Afeniforo     Kwarareports     Okiki     Ilorin Like-Minds     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Ilorin Curfew     Ajasse-Ipo     Tricycle Owners Association Of Nigeria     Turaki Of Ilorin     Manzuma     Olomu     Omupo     Quran     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     High Court     Busari Alabi Alausa     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     A.O. Belgore     Mutawali     Tafida Of Kaiama     Nagode     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Jare Olatundun     Abikan     Bola Tinubu     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Kumbi Titilope     Seed Technologies     Tunji Moronfoye    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Balogun-Ojomu     Arca Santa     Moses Afolayan     Igbomina     CKNG     Olusola Saraki     The Herald     Opobiyi     Shuaib Abdulkadir     COEASU     Aliyu Adebayo     Onikijipa     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Ibrahim Gambari     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Babajide Ajayi     Abdulazeez Uthman     Ganmo     Roheemat Hammed     KWATMA     Alfa Yahaya Road     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Principal Private Secretary     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Durosinlohun Atiku     Ibrahim Taiwo Road     Alabe     David Adesina     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Afolayan     Bayo Ajia     Patience Jonathan     Kwara State Fire Service     Post Utme     Adedipe     Baaziki Sulaiman     Adebara     College Of Health     Ajayi Okasanmi     Alaro     Prince Bola Ajibola     Otoge     Kazeem Oladepo     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Post-utme     Omu-aran     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Senate Presidency     Olusegun Adeniyi     Muazam Nayaya     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Ekweremadu     Belgore     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     ER-KANG     Kayode Zubair     Adisa Logun     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Aliyu Salihu     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Aso-ofi     Voices Of Tomorrow     Kisira     Nigeria Customs Service     Borgu     Quarry Royal Valley     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Shettima     Oja-Oba     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Abegunde Goke     Onilorin Of Ilorin     LEAH Charity Foundation