Have you heard that the State of Osun may stop its free feeding programme for the kids? They cannot sustain it anymore. The Deputy Governor is complaining that they spend N3.6 billion feeding the kids every year and that federal allocation is falling.
They are saying parents may now be compelled to pay some amount to assist the scheme.
Aregbesola is just a noisemaker. He is failing the people. So he based the execution of all his programmes on oil allocation? So he and his cabinet are clueless as to how to turn Osun into a wealth-generating centre? They spend N3.6 billion on the children's meals? Why won't they when all they do is to import? What stops Aregbe from turning the state into an agricultural or a service hub for all of West Africa?
Why can't they grow the food the kids and everyone is eating right there in Osun State where hectares upon hectares of arable land are lying fallow and unused?
Or is Osun State so poor that it has nothing to offer the world? Many Nigerian leaders have empty skulls, they are clueless on how to advance their states and almost all of them just collect oil money and spend, so they never think or are incapable of thinking of how they can generate money on their own.
And if APC cannot feed kids in just one state, how will it feed all the kids in Nigeria? And this same Aregbe is still owing salaries. He shouts dwindling allocation as if he is the only one with falling revenue, all the governors are receiving reduced allocations so what is wrong with Baba Kabiru, Oko Alhaja Sherifatu?
Where did he get the money for his campaign that he cannot now pay salaries and feed the kids? Can't he get the money from the same place?
And I hope people who believe in jazz see the uselessness of that myth called blood money ritual. There is nothing like that, you cannot turn human flesh into money unless you sell it. If there was anything like that, governments like that of Osun go don do am since.
We need vibrant leaders with vibrant ideas on how to make the country advance not those giving excuses that oil money is not enough. Are countries without oil not paying worker salaries and feeding their kids?
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