
Juxtaposing the 90% electioneering promise kept statement by His Excellency, Gov Oyebanji.
This statement was made by his Excellency, our governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji during the during the flag-off of the Itawure – Okemesi road, recently.
We, his subjects are grappling with the magical mathematics behind this statement as we continue to humbly request that governance must be separated from politicking.
that candidate Oyebanji’s electioneering campaign slogan was hinged on continuity in governance. Despite an existing law (howbeit amended) of the state, “The Transition Law” which forbids new administrations from abandoning projects of the previous administration in the state, Pipe borne Water still alludes almost, if not all the local government areas of Ekiti State.
Ekitikete deserves a progress report status on The World Bank’s Third National Urban Water Sector Reform Project (NUWSRP) in Ekiti State, Nigeria which aimed to improve the state’s water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). The project includes the rehabilitation of dams, water treatment plants, and water transmission systems.
We the citizens that bear the brunt of the absence of clean portable water have remained in perplexity as to the rationale of building a bridge (costing billions of Naira for at most one hundred vehicle owners) as against the completion and availability of clean tapped water to millions of us (including the vulnerable aged, children and populace at large, including vehicle owners), even at a cheaper cost than building that bridge.
In a recent state sponsored article, ” Deconstructing Osatuyi’s misdirected diatribes against Oyebanji, by a faceless Raphael Babalola”, a lot of cosmetic achievements were hurriedly reeled out in a knee jerk reaction to criticism based on veritable facts, e.g the indignant state of human activity waste dumping at the Oja Oba in the state capital, the inaccessibility of Ekiti through failed roads etc.
The beauty of democracy as exemplified by Nigeria’s “centre of excellence”, Lagos is the continuity of development and progress at all realms, including infrastructure and human capital levels, most will agree that these two indices have merely been lip serviced by governor Oyebanji led administration.
The prayer of this article is simply that this government either through the legislative arm or its executive, give us their subject a status report on the The World Bank’s Third National Urban Water Sector Reform Project (NUWSRP) in Ekiti State.
Abiodun Borisade
Iloro Ekiti, Ijero LGA
Ekiti State.
