Exactly two years ago, the then outgoing (now former Governor) of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, commissioned an airport (let us forget about its name now) in Ado-Ekiti. A military aircraft was understandably arranged to land and take off at the location. Some gullible Ekitians expectedly trooped out, danced and clapped, and went home.
If there had been any landing and or taking off of any flying objects on the location in the past two years, they must have been birds!It continues to beat my imagination how people could so much have their conscience seared with iron such that they sell ordinary as super to the majority unsuspecting Ekitians, making them all ‘Suẹgbẹs’!.
Unfortunately, we now tend to focus our attention on the happenings outside our State without bothering ourselves about the despicable occurrences under our noses in Ekiti. I never knew we could be this hypocritical as a people. It’s like our charity no longer begins at home!I won’t be surprised if, as usual, some people would read meanings into this factual view as opposed to addressing the critical issues at stake. How on earth would an outgoing governor insist on wasting scarce resources on the commissioning of an uncompleted project? If his successor should come in to complete and commission the project, would that have taken anything away from the fact that he ‘midwifed’ the project? The answer is no!
The way most of our political office holders squander our commonwealth, can they waste their hard-earned resources the same way? This inevitably takes us back to an incident that occurred when ‘Ẹbọra Owu’ was on an official visit to Ekiti State as a sitting President. When he visited the Poultry farm, which was a baby project of the then Governor, and he couldn’t perceive the ‘smell’ of ‘chicken poo’, he reportedly asked the Governor: ‘Mr. Governor, are your chickens not pooing’? In other words, where are the chickens?
Two years after the commissioning of the airport in Ekiti, I don’t think it will be out of place if we should be asking former Governor Kayode Fayemi, ‘Where are the aircrafts’?
Caleb Arogundade
16-10-24
