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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / My Governor the Comrade Adams is at it again |
on: 20-01-2012 12:34 PM
| | EDO STATE IS WORKING AGAIN!!!.........TEXT OF A BROADCAST BY THE GOVERNOR OF EDO STATE, COMRADE ADAMS ALIYU
OSHIOMHOLE, mni, GOVERNOR OF EDO STATE ON THURSDAY JANUARY 19, 2012
My dear people of Edo State,
In view of the increase in the price of petrol by the Federal
Government and the consequential rise in the cost of living, it has
become necessary for my Administration to take some crucial measures
to cushion the effect on the people of Edo State.
Having followed the debate on the issue of subsidy removal, it is
clear to me that the major problem is that the public does not trust
that the proceeds will be utilized judiciously.
However, I assure you that in Edo State, this will not be the case.
We are determined to ensure that the pains arising from the partial
removal of subsidy translate to concrete gains for the generality of
our people.
I am convinced that the process of rebuilding this trust between the government and the governed requires that
we take concrete, visible and measurable steps aimed at creatively
using the accruing revenue to deliver the greatest good to the
greatest number of our people in the shortest possible time.
Therefore, although we have not yet ascertained the precise accrual to
Edo State from the Federation Accounts as a result of the reduction in
the subsidy on petrol, I am conscious of the need for immediate
measures to alleviate the effects of the consequential escalation in the cost of living.
Accordingly, we have structured a programme to creatively and
judiciously distribute the revenue gains to the generality of Edo
People through the following policy measures:
FREE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
My Administration has abolished all fees and levies, including PTA
levies, in all public senior secondary schools for both indigenes and
residents. We will in addition sustain our existing policy of
absolutely free and compulsory education at the primary and junior
secondary school levels.
I expect that this new universal free primary and secondary education
will benefit the generality of our people.
REDUCTION OF FEES AT THE AMBROSE ALI UNIVERSITY
I have directed the authorities of the Ambrose Ali University to
reduce tuition fees payable by each student by N15,000 for regular undergraduate students
irrespective of state of origin. In the same vein, I have directed a
N5,000 reduction in fees payable by each part-time undergraduate student.
The total value of this reduction will be paid to the University by
the Edo State Government en bloc in addition to the current N210 monthly
subvention. This effectively means that the AAU will not suffer any
loss of revenue.
FREE MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR PENSIONERS AND SENIOR CITIZENS OF AGE 70 AND ABOVE.
In addition to our existing free ante-natal care and delivery and the
free treatment for children under the Age of 5, I have decided to
introduce free medical treatment for pensioners and senior citizens,
indigenes and non-indigenes who are resident in Edo State, who are 70
years and above in all State Government hospitals.
In addition, we have concluded plans for free eye test and free eye
glasses for those aged 60 and above in public hospitals.
EDO CITY TRANSPORT SERVICE
Similarly, I have directed the Edo City Transport Services to maintain
and not increase the current bus fares.
I have also directed the company to introduce a 50% subsidy on
transport fares for public and private primary school pupils and secondary school
students in uniform to and from school. This will take effect from the 1st of February
2012, by which time all the ticketing details would have been worked out.
In addition, we have concluded arrangements to double the Comrade Bus Service
fleet by acquiring more buses.
CONCLUSION
I wish to again express appreciation to the people of Edo State for
their unflinching trust, understanding and support, especially during
the challenging events of the past two weeks. In particular, I am
deeply gratified by the appreciation of my position and role in the
resolution of the crisis arising from the subsidy reduction.
For me, there are no easy solutions to the problems that confront our
nation. However, to meet the multi-facetted challenges of good
governance, I believe that leaders at all levels need to set aside
personal political calculations in the larger interest of the polity.
Therefore, whereas it was convenient for me at this point to exploit
the current issue to orchestrate my political interests, especially as
elections are around the corner, the overriding interest of our
country was utmost in my mind.
Finally, as I have always argued, our problems as a people are not
insurmountable. Through constructive dialogue, critical citizen
engagement, activism and contestations as well as collective reflection on
policy options, which the events of the last two weeks represent, I am
convinced that we can improve the quality and pace of development in
Nigeria.
I wish to reassure the people of Edo State of this Administration’s
continuous determination to sustain and intensify the tempo of
development, as well as improve the quality of lives of our people
through our investments in education, roads, health, environmental
renewal, water, agriculture and other areas.
May God bless you all | | | | |
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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Nigeria and The menace called Boko Harams |
on: 17-01-2012 02:48 PM
| | I was going through the Internet and i saw these write up which i will
like to share with our member in Naijapals.
i will like us to go through and comment and hope this will be paste
on the front bill. though the write up is long but we should take time to read
i wouldn't disclose the address of the writer because of fear of harassing him.
Shira, an Islamic teacher in Niger State writes...
"The Christmas day attack of a church in Madalla, Niger State was, no
doubt, an invitation by the Boko Haram for the rest of us Nigerians to
adopt their method and engage in indiscriminate killings in the name
of a religious cause.
It is clear that the extremist religious group is engaged in
terrorism and as President Goodluck Jonathan said recently, terrorism,
especially the type we have so far seen of the Boko Haram, is not a
fight for any particular religious cause; it has rather been a fight
against all of us, Muslims, Christians, animists, the completely
innocent and even women and children, who in all laws of war are
prohibited from being harmed. Thus we have all fallen victims to the
senseless and relentless assault the sect has visited on this country.
It is a statement of enormous wisdom on the part of all Nigerians that
we saw through the cynical mischief intended by the Boko Haram to lure
us into a fight that is certain to affect us in one way or another and
which also has the potential of leading to the destabilisation of our
nation. This repudiation of the evil invitation to participate in an
orgy of slaughter will certainly cause the tempters not to engage in
what they did on Christmas day in Madalla. If Nigerians, especially
Christians, had risen up that day or the days after to begin to go for
the throats of Muslims they see around, Boko Haram would have
multiplied such attacks on churches across the country by now for its
objective was to set Christians against Muslims and southerners
against northerners in a meaningless fight that will do no one any
good.
Boko Haram does not represent Islam in Nigeria. The Sultan of Sokoto,
Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar, who is the spiritual father of all Muslims in
Nigeria has himself said so, namely, that the people are evil. “They
have no respect for human life. All religions, including Islam, hold
human life as sacred. A true believer does not have the right to take
his own life, not to talk of taking that of others illegally,” the
Sultan had stated.
That attack, previous ones and others since, should open our eyes to
see that the real enemies we Nigerians have right now are the
extremists Boko Haram sect whose agenda spell doom for the rest of us.
If the Boko Haram people were fighting for Muslims or the religion of
Islam, they would have spared Muslims in the murderous attacks they
have waged against the fatherland in the past few years. In fact,
Muslims have even suffered more in these attacks than other Nigerians.
If Muslims are not benefiting from the crusade of the Boko Haram; if
Christians are suffering pains and anguish from the same sect and if
foreigners also have not been spared, then our common enemy is most
assuredly the Boko Haram.
Islam, it has been said for the umpteenth time, is a religion of peace
and not violence. But Boko Haram which says it wants a ‘purer’ form of
Islam imposed on Nigeria is now painting the religion black in the
eyes of some people.
Now that we have identified who our common enemy is, the question is
what do we do? The answer is simple: we must engage them in a clean
fight. We cannot afford to adopt the mode and method of fight adopted
by the group.
We cannot go about killing and maiming or destroying property
indiscriminately. That will not serve any useful purpose, nor will it
portray us as any better than them. But we can all get involved in the
war of identifying and picking out both the sponsors and foot soldiers
of the sect. These clearly misguided compatriots of ours must be
singled out and isolated and brought to face justice for the crimes
they have committed against our society in the false claim of fighting
the cause of God.
As a Muslim, I feel deeply ashamed of the campaign of killing and
hatred which the Boko Haram sect has waged against Nigeria. Its
methods are all against the prescription of the very religion whose
cause it says it is championing. Islam forbids suicide; Islam forbids
the shedding of innocent blood; Islam forbids the destruction or
desecration of places of worship and Islam says that Muslims should
regard Christians and Jews as cousins because they are ‘’People of the
Book’’. But the Boko Haram sect have killed men, women and children in
a senseless orgy of violence. They have destroyed a church; they have
desecrated places of worship with blood. They cannot be a people who
speak for Islam or champion the cause of that great religion. The
Sultan is right in describing them as forces of evil. We must be ready
to confront this new evil.
It is good to have a dream. It is good to have an ambition to achieve
something noble. But a reasonable person has to be realistic in the
dreams or goals he sets for himself. Boko Haram says it wants to
campaign for the imposition of Sharia on the whole of Nigeria. That is
a tall dream, a dream it cannot possibly realise in the type of
society Nigeria is now. Nigeria is a heterogeneous society. No one can
successfully impose any religion or values on others unless we all sit
down and agree. We must tell the Boko Haram people that they are
embarking upon a war they cannot win, no matter how long they are at
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...When u too busy to take care of ur man someone else wil take care of him for u.