Thursday 8 September 2011

...WHY BELIEVE POLITICIANS

("... my view on politics is different from Churchils view because it is the player "most" that are bad not the game, that is y he contracted himself by saying politicians speaks and they are surprise when people believe them (politician), he should have put it succinctly that; "political liars" , when men of honour play the game the difference is left on the sand of time and they are greatly ho...noured in heart and in memory when they are no more" come and play politics and make the difference, lets get this half-educated, none-foresighted, dead end-selfish, permanent politicians out of this and redefine the Nigerian politics... if those who CAN dont, then those who can NOT will! the more reason you must join now") 
- Dayo Onibiyo Chairmanship Aspirant Yagba East 
at a Public Lecture in Kabba, Feb. 17th 2010

Wednesday 7 September 2011

YAGBA EAST JOB SEEKERS PLATFORM


"ONE OF OUR PROPOSED LINE OF ACTIONS, IS TO OFFER YOU JOB ROAMING AND INFORMATICS AS POINT 5.......... WE HAVE DONE IT IN THE PRIVATE BEFORE, GOD HELPING US WE ARE STILL DOING IT, NOW WE ARE ENLARGING THE COAST, USING OUR BLOG SPOT AND FACEBOOK PAGE TO HANDLE THIS MATTER SERIOUSLY, KINDLY CHECK OUR GROUP ON "YAGBA EAST JOB SEEKERS PLATFORM; KEEP TRACK OF BOTH POINTS..."  
Hon. Dayo Onibiyo(8th Sept., 2011: 12:50 am)

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Monday 5 September 2011

MEMO TO KOGI HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ON PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED MOTION TO PAY GRATUITY TO FMR. LOCAL GOVT. CHAIRMEN AND OTHERS


MEMORANDUM
SUBMITTED TO THE PUBLIC HEARING
BY
KOGI STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, LOKOJA - NIGERIA

TO                                          -           CHAIRMAN
                                                            HOUSE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY &
                                                            LEGAL MATTERS

-           HOUSE COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

FROM                                               HON. DAYO ONIBIYO
                                                            WARD 02, IFE-OLUKOTUN
                                                            YAGBA EAST LGA, KOGI STATE (08034104631)

SUBJECT                                         GRANT FOR FORMER LOCAL
GOVERNMENT CHIEF EXECUTIVES, VICE, LEADERS OF THE COUNCIL AND THE DEPUTIES

DATE                                     27TH DAY OF AUGUST 2011
 

I hereby write as a citizen of Nigeria and a true son of Ife-Olukotun a town in South East district of Yagba East LGA to show my dismay and fear for the future of Kogi State in respect of the above subject matter, at a time like this, when the moribund LGAs in Kogi State are just trying to find their feet from either unpaid allowances or other forms of maladministration, amidst several cases pending before the EFCC, ICPC and other anti-graft bodies arising particularly from the immediate past LGA administrations.

From the content of the subject, it thus appeared that the following have not been taking into consideration, that:
1.                 Each of the 21 LGA will be catering for at least four (4) persons per every three years at minimum, if no impeachment is recorded within the next ten years and that in another three sets, the LGAs will be talking of God help us at least 252 people on that uneconomically viable adventure!


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2.                 The financial implication in ten years time could have come to Two Million Naira (N2m) multiply by 252 people, given a whooping sum of half a billion from the lean purse of the State at the expense of the good people of Kogi State and their development, vice a vis their security.

3.                 It is most unfortunate too, that those who don’t understand that, the law is irespecta of no person or persons will want to see it as from 1999 to date and ahead, kindly ask your self what we are talking about: 21 LGA x 4 x  4 sets which gives rise to 336 people plus the projected ten years, meaning that by 2020 when other States are keying into the BEST ECONOMY plan, our State will be coughing out over a billion naira on the evil design called “grant” as captioned above. Please, note, the LAW can’t be IN RETROSPECT, it’s not a decree.

I will like to ask the following questions pertinently:
A.      Is a Chairman or any other political office holder expected to be JOBLESS before coming into office? If NO, then can’t he or she develop his or herselve with the improvement in salaries, allowances over where he or she is coming from? Can’t he or she settle himself from his or her pay off from his or former place of work? And if he or she is a business person or artisan, can’t he or she expand his or her business from such proceed and then the SEVERANCE ALLOWANCE? If the answer to this (A) is YES then we are only building criminals into our public offices and that will kill the already moribund system.

B.   The least paid amongst these people are the Council deputies and am sure they earn about Three Hundred Thousand (N300,000) in a month, meaning N3.6m in a year x 3 yrs, given N10.8m plus the severance allowance that will be paid, are you saying it is not enough to do a responsible investment for any responsible person, when some people turn around ordinary Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N500,000)?
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Sincerely, if these public office holders can not turn around these sums of money for good in preparation for when they will go back to their business and other undertaken then they are not fit to lead, it means they will only squander and loot our resources, so in the first instance they have no business being there.

At the end of their tenure in office, they should be employers of labour, a Chairman would have come through the sum of over N32m in three years… this is absolute madness and an insult on the people, injustice on democracy and disgrace to politicians, I have often said and will repeat, permanent politicians are nothing but thieves and we should not have them as politicians, politics is not a career, is what you devote time out of your schedules to do and be in a hurry to return back to your chosen field, except the Churchill type, too bad.

(i)      HISTORICAL
It is funny, because, whoever is pushing this bill is deaf or can not be a former Chairman or Council officials who sang misused Zero Allocations to us (apology to zero budgeting) all the time, so do they want the LGA they left in penury and shambles to pay from minus zero allocation or go and get loan to service them, they cried they could not pay salaries well and as at when due, wonders shall never end!

(ii)     DOUBLE GRATUITY /GRANT or WHATEVER IS CALLED
Those who are already pensionable, or gets something from their former place of work will now be collecting from two sources or what? Or you will excuse them and pay those who are not already collecting from somewhere, this way looting continues

(iii)    HEATING UP THE POLITICAL SYSTEM
This approach if adopted will only heat up the system as more people will want to get to the LG level to become Chief Executive Officers, impeachment will become rife, even the Council Leaders and deputies could be randomly removed at the slighted provocation and they must be paid too, the proposal probably does not exempt impeached officers! So where are we going…
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Prayers
That:
1.                 The idea must be thrown into the trash can and such fund CHANNELED to food security if available. (AU, UN, NEPAD, EU, etc)

2.                 We should embrace the principle of reducing poverty as proposed by NEPAD, the New Partnership For Africa’s Development developing our Human Capital.

3.                 Our State set example and take the lead in making laws that will allow credible people with “experience” and something worthwhile doing to get to public office rather than drop outs, half-educated and not-to-do well people, who will want to continue to feast on our economy.

4.                 We should not make our State a laughing Stock in the committee of States.

5.                 The State should not expose itself to unnecessary legal tussles that will greet such unholy adoption of a satanic proposal.

6.                 Outgoing Public Office Holders be trained and properly schooled on how to invest for the days ahead via a workshop, so that they can become employers or labour or increase their staff strength thereafter contributing to addressing employment crisis in Nigeria.

7.                 They should be paid their SEVERANCE ALLOWANCE with their LAST SALARY while leaving office; this will make it handy and make it applicable.

These submissions I make in good faith and I would have love, to be here personally to defend THIS, but due to short notice, I have to hurriedly put this piece together. Thanks.

Sgd