Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State placed on sale 10 assets/ legacy projects of the state constructed by his predecessors.




Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has placed on sale 10 assets/ legacy projects of the state constructed by his predecessors.


Rumour of the sale had been going on for a while, but the state Commissioner of Finance, Asiru Idris, confirmed it last week at the state House of Assembly during the budget defence of his ministry.

Asiru listed the assets to be put on sale to include newly constructed Kogi Hotels; Conference Stadium; Confluence Beach Hotels; Commissioners’ quarters; Lokoja international market; 12-storey building of Kogi Liaison Office, Abuja; Kogi Liaison Offices in Kaduna and Lagos, among others.

He said the proceeds from the sale of these projects would be used to finance the 2018 budget proposal (now passed by the Assembly and assent to by the governor same day).

Also read https://247evolutionnews.blogspot.com/2019/07/okene-ii-world-are-watching-leave.html?m=1
Opposition party kicks

But the development has irked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which has kicked against it, describing the plan as “despicable and selfish.”

State Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr Bode Ogunmola, in a statement, yesterday, in Lokoja, described the move as wicked, anti-people and retrogressive.

The statement read: “The news coming out of Lugard House, the seat of power, are a grave foreboding from one faulty step to another, the administration has proceeded in the destruction of our patrimony with the energy of an invader in a foreign territory.

“We are shocked that the state Finance Commissioner, Asiru Idris, last week during his budget defence at the State House of Assembly, confirmed this and went ahead to list these legacy assets/ projects.

“We reject this proposal in totality and warn Governor Bello to immediately perish this thought… the plot is devilish, selfish, myopic.

‘’It is shameful and the peak of rascality that a government, which cannot pay salaries of workers, let alone execute projects, will now scheme to mortgage our collective future.”

However, Commissioner of Finance, Asiru Idris, yesterday further confirmed the story, saying any moment from now, the consultant will commence the sale of the assets/projects.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Video: Meet The Boy Behind The Viral Crying Meme, Narrating The Story Of What Happened The Day The Photo Was Captured

Image
Finally, Meet The Boy Behind The Viral Crying Meme, Narrating The Story Of What Happened The Day The Photo Was Captured. The boy behind the crying meme that has been trending on social media finally speaking on what happened the day the photo was taken. He said, it all happened when he was with his grandmother in the village, where his friend parsuaded him to play dice with the money his grandmother sent him to used and bought garri. I was crying when I lost the money my mother gave me to bought garri from the market, so I started crying and later thought of increasing the rate of my crying to attracted the attention of people hoping to see someone who will help me, the boy narrated. Knowing that the punishment for what he has done is starving to for two whole days is what triggered his crying in other to seek the attention of the good Samaritans who will help him, what baffle him is how the photo was taken and made viral, the boy explained.
Read more

Guber Poll: November 16, A Sure Deal For PDP As Kogi Youths Thrown Their Weight Behind Engr Musa Wada.

Image
A foremost sociopolitical interest group, Kogi Youth Roundtable has thrown their weight behind the mandate of Engr Musa Wada in the November 16 gubernatorial election in the state. In a statement made public by the National Publicity of the group, Comrade Jerry Ochada, the forum endorsed the ambition of Musa Wada at the end of its 27th Stakeholders council which reached a climax in Lokoja on Saturday. According to the resolution, the decision of the youths to endorse Wada is in line with the obvious lapses of the incumbent governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello attested by majority of Kogites and Nigerians as an unrepentant failure. Excepts of the statement read: “Kogi Youth Roundtable is a household name in Kogi State foremost for criticizing the lingering deficits trending sour in the confluence state. It is on record that we have never at a point in time endorsed the ambition of any aspirant but the emergence of Engr Musa Wada as the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Part
Read more