Truly stupidity and and foolishness have
taken the front seat, while wisdom and commonsense has taken the back
seat under the Yahaya Bello administration.
Out of the 36 states in Nigeria plus
the federal capital territory, only Kogi state has approved the
forceful seizure of the peoples’ land and be used as Cattle Colonies.
One question that comes to my mind
is that is it only Yahaya Bello that knows the importance of cattle
colonies to their states than the other state governors or is it that
the level of his political sycophancy to the Abuja cabal has led him to
engage in an act capable of causing and fueling generational conflict on
the people of the state?
What a shame and an act of political
stupidity for a governor who cannot attract viable federal government
policies and programs or infrastructural interventions for the past 23
months but only to attract the establishment of cattle colonies to the
state as a second year anniversary present to the people.
This is a clear case of a governor
that was not voted by the people, an Abuja based transporter who failed
the APC primaries and was forced on the people via series of legal
manipulation. Hence the government or governor lack and doesn’t have the
feeling of pains of the people at heart. Never considered the
implication of such policy as criminal as the establishment of the
cattle colonies on the people, both at present and in the future, giving
the antecedents of the Fulani tribe in the recent past.
State Governors who were voted by
their people love their people hence have consideration for their
present and futuristic plight. Hence the rejection of the cattle
colonies by those governors. But ours in Kogi state just like Ajala The Pregnant Tortoise, the situation is unfortunate.
If the common sense thermometer of
this Yahaya Bello and his co- pilot are functional, it should have told
them that such policies with political, social, economic, traditional,
custom, conflict and generational implication are supposed to be
discussed on a round table with stakeholders in the various sectors of
the state before decision are reached.
Imagine, less the 72 hours after
announcement of the policy by the federal government, Kogi state
volunteered to be the pioneering state. This alone shows that there was
no iota of consultation, but a pure act of autocratic pronouncement by
Yahaya Bello which has been the hall mark of his administration. The
only thing that will save this administration from the impending doom
that awaits it before or in 2019 is for it to appoint a Special Adviser
on Human Reasoning and Common Sense.
Attract to Kogi state Federal government
interventions in road construction, poverty and hunger alleviation, and
capacity building programs aimed at improving the socio-economic living
standards of the people, not Fulani cattle colonies.
– Sam Enemama Akubor
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