Suffocating Consequences Of Humongous Political Lies, Kaduna State In Focus
The Oasis Reporters
March 29, 2018
Political suffocation seems to be the lot of the Kaduna State emperor-like governor, a consequence of the humongous lies he told the electorate in the State while campaigning to be governor back in 2015.
One of such lies is his promise to conduct local council elections within 3 months of his appointment as governor.
We are more than 3 years in the life of this contraption of a government with less than a year left, yet no elections have taken place.
Politics aside, let the reader please undertake a survey of some of the projects started by this Kaduna State government and judge for himself/herself if any has been completed.
Look at the dualization of the roads from the Mobile Police Barracks through Barnawa and terminating at the Railway station roundabout, the Rigasa to the Railway station and the Ungwan Dosa roads expansion projects. All of these road projects have been abandoned at different stages of construction.
Check out the township street identification project equally abandoned.
They say that the Zaria water project is simply a scam as water hawkers are making brisk business.
What about the renovation of Primary schools even in the very heart of the city?
Are the school children still being fed?
Check out the population of the child-beggars, known in the North as Almajirai in Kaduna city centre and elsewhere scrambling for morsels to feed on even when the Emperor promised to have them returned to decent schools.
Has any student of tertiary institution in Kaduna State benefited from any State scholarship programmes?
Has the Emperor settled the financial entitlements of the workers he sacked?
If not did he not simply sentence the sacked former workers to early deaths?
This is just a tip of the iceberg yet the Emperor is strategizing to remain the chief tenant in Sir Kashim Ibrahim House. Well, he can dream any dreams he chooses but if votes will count in 2019, we wait to see how. Now that the Emperor has made a virtual hostage of himself, we wait to see how he will conduct the ‘re-election’ campaign.
Is it possible for him to walk tall in any part of the State? I have my doubts.
Written by Gora Dauda. He writes from Kaduna, north western Nigeria.
