State (CSCEO) today (Tuesday, January 26, 2016) in Abuja, the Federal
Capital Territory (FCT) has called on the National Assembly to
intervene in the financial mess Osun state found itself under Governor
Rauf Aregbesola.
This call was made during a peaceful demonstration held at the
premises of the National Assembly by members of the Coalition group
consisting of about 20 civil and faith based organizations who
converged at the complex as early as 7.30am.
And in the petition submitted to both the Senate President, Dr. Bukola
Saraki and the House of Representatives Speaker, Hon. Yakubu Dogara,
the group asked the National Assembly to safen the state from imminent
state of anarchy.
In the letters which was received on behalf of Saraki and Dogara by
the Deputy Sergeant-at-Arm, A.M Nnaji, the group listed 16 issues
bordering on alleged financial recklessness of the governor which
caused the state to be receiving negative allocations from the
Federation Account.
According to CSCEO in the letter signed by its Chairman, Comrade
Adeniyi Sulaiman and the Assistant Secretary, Comrade Gbenga Oyeleke,
the group urged the National Assembly to support the demand of Osun
citizens for a thorough and credible investigation of the deliberate
and criminal mismanagement of our meager resources by the duo of
Aregbesola and Mrs. Grace Titi Laoye-Tomori, the deputy governor which
action is "threatening the peace and security of our state".
"We are here to show our grievances with the governance of our state
under the dictatorship, grossly corrupt and oppressive rule of
Aregbesola who has turned Osun state into a totalitarian state where
citizens have no fundamental rights but only fundamental duties.
"The governance of Osun state in the last five years has been
characterized by cluelessness, highhandedness, impunity, greed and
wanton disregard for time-tested principles of public management and
international best practices.
"We were promised banishment of poverty and hunger, peaceful
co-existence and all-round development and prosperity but what do we
have five years after; poverty, hunger and starvation, backwardness,
social insecurity, mutual suspicion and religious disharmony, sickness
and deaths.
"As it stands today, Osun is a failed state under the watch of Rauf
Adesoji Aregbesola and his rubber stamped legislators whose failure to
perform their oversight functions as representative of the people is
grossly responsible for the pitiable and precarious condition we have
found ourselves. No matter how maladroit the governor may be, if the
House of Assembly had performed its functions as enshrined in the
constitution, things would have been different.
"In the light of the following and in the spirit of the
anti-corruption crusade of the All Progressives Congress(APC) led-
government of President Muhammadu Buhari, we are hereby requesting the
intervention of your good self and the distinguished members of the
Senate to support the demand of Osun citizens for a thorough and
credible investigation of the deliberate and criminal mismanagement of
our meager resources by the duo of Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola and
Mrs. Grace Titi Laoye-Tomori, governor and deputy governor of Osun
state respectively which action is threatening the peace and security
of our state.
"We will like you to use your good offices as worthy representatives
of the people to compel the EFCC and ICPC to act on our petitions
which they duly received but which they have decided to bury. Any
attempt to bury them further may portray President Muhammadu Buhari
and his APC led government as being insincere with their
anti-corruption crusade.
"We will like to counsel here that what is good for the goose should
also be good for the gander. There should be no sacred cows in the
implementation of Mr. President's anti-corruption campaign as it is
well known that charity must begin at home.
"Finally, we will like to inform you that we shall do all that are
within the provisions of the of the amended 1999 Constitution to
effect the recall of the unscrupulous rubberstamp legislators of the
Osun State House of Assembly by their constituencies.
During the rally, protesters carried placards some of which read,
"Osun people want FG to take Osun from Rauf Aregbesola", "NASS, Osun
Pensioners are dying", "Aregbesola must go", "No to Minus-Allocation"
and "Aregbe has sold Osun into debt slavery" among others.
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Pix 1, 2, 5 (A.M Nnaji, the Deputy-Seargent at Arms of the National
Assembly addressing leader of CSCEO, Comrade Adeniyi Sulaiman and
other members of the group.
Pix 3 and 4: Copies of letter received by the Senate and the House of
Representatives
Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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