Efio-Ita Nyok|14 September 2016
Information reaching this media outfit has it that Yahaya Bello, the Executive Governor of Kogi State has acquired a loan of $12 million for the purchase of 109 vehicles.
This is coming at the time where the said governor is indebted to state civil servants having not paid their salaries allegedly.
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday through the party’s Director of New Media, Deji Adeyanju, who took to his Twitter handle @adeyanjudeji said: “Of all the problems in Kogi State, buying $12m cars for Yahaya Bello is the most important thing.”
He also revealed a letter signed by the state Commissioner of Finance, Asiwaju Asiru Idris, which registered the
government’s interest to take delivery of the vehicles.
A social media user, one Ekemini James, has queried the insensitivity of Governor Bello in a post titled: 'Where is change beginning from in Kogi?'. According to James, 'Yahaya Bello, young governor of rustic Kogi state, who recently took a loan in this period of recession not to develop any of the productive sectors in his state but to purchase exotic cars he plans distributing, (and I wonder on which road they would ply the automobiles in Kogi) flamboyantly demonstrating how 'change begins with him' with hooded security personnel to observe the Sallah prayers. Some things you can't imagine will be happening in a democratic government of change!'
'By the way, Kogi is one of many states resembling an arena of slavery in Nigeria. A drive through the state on way to Abuja is all the confirmation one needs to conclude the people are permanently shackled. Whence is thy freedom, Kogi?', he concluded.
Is this how change begins with the APC governor in Kogi? Hian!!
Efio-Ita Nyok
Is a Blogger & the Editor of NegroidHaven.org