A frontline human rights activist in Osun State and Chairman, Civil
Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEO),
Comrade Adeniyi,Alimi Sulaiman has declared that Osun State
Governor,Mr. Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola been the curse to the State
and her citizens, because the governor has destroyed economy of the
State beyond redemption which made it difficult for the people to eat
three square meals again.
Comrade Sulaiman also stressed that the present economy quagmire
facing the State which made her not to be able to fulfill the common
sense obligation of payment of Salaries to its workforce and retires
alike for period of six (6) to eight (8) months, and as well put the
State into debt regime which no government has ever put Osun State
into since its creation in August 27th,1991, as a result of visionless
and bad governance of Mr. Aregbesola.
He however, regretted the coming of Aregbesola to the governance of
the State by turning the State to where his (Aregbesola) Son’s
Mother-in-Law, Mrs. Ayo Omidiran would be organizing a Summit and by
implication, they have turned the State into family affairs,
describing the proposed summit as political jamboree and wasting of
meager resources of the State where nothing meaningful would not come
out of it and after thought of the criminally mismanagement of the
allocations accrued to the State from Federation Account.
Reviewing the 36 pages Petition letter authored by a serving
courageous Judge of the State High Court, Justice Olamide Folahanmi
Oloyede to the State House of Assembly, Economy and Financial Crime
Commission(EFCC),Independent Corrupt Practices and other related
offences Commission(ICPC),among others, through a Statement issued and
signed by Sulaiman which a copy was made available to newsmen in
Osogbo on Sunday, maintained that the contents and heaps of evidences
contained in the said petition would not allow it to die, as being
thought in some quarters in the State, stated that the petition is a
must to read for Osun indigenes at home and abroad, insisting that
the petition will not die until it is attended to, as no solution
was coming to the State insight.
Speaking further on the mirage of problems facing the State, he opined
that only solution to the problems is for Mr. Aregbesola to answer to
the posers being raised by the erudite jurist in her petition and as
well come out with the truth of picture of the financial status of the
State without any hidden agenda like criminal increment of workers’
salaries from #1.3 billion to #3.6 billion and non disclosure of
actual allocation accrued to the State federation account where the
evidences had shown to the world.
He therefore reiterated the commitment of the Civil Societies
Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State(CSCEO) to put the
Aregbesola’s government on its toes for the common good of the
generality of Osun indigenes and habitants, adding that the Coalition
would ensure disconnection of Aregbesola’s systematically provision
of poverty,hunger,death,failure, financial quagmire, illiteracy and
underdevelopment as dividends of democracy to the people.
According to him; “There is no doubt that Mr. Rauf Adesoji
Aregbesola’s government has become a curse to the people of this State
because of his hidden agenda propaganda and cosmetic policies.
Aregbesola thought that because people of the State loved him and they
will not ask questions about the governance, particularly, the fund
accrued to the State again, not knowing that the second term in office
will give the opportunity to the people to ask for the Aregbesola’s
account of stewardship of his first term in office when so much of our
common wealth are siphoned by the few individuals from Lagos and Osun.
We want Aregbesola to truthfully tell us what went wrong with our
State and he should know that only truth and justice can heal it, as
employment of brigandage against opposition in the State, cannot help
Aregbesola in solving the mirage of problems facing the State
presently“.
Meanwhile, Comrade Sulaiman has urged the women activists in Nigeria
to rise up in defence of a courageous woman Judge, Justice Olamide
Folahanmi Oloyede, who authored a 36 pages petition, calling for the
thorough and credible investigation into the alleged gross financial
misconduct of the Osun State governor, Mr Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola’s
government which led to the present financial quagmire facing the
State.
He dropped the names of the leading Women’s rights activists as Dr
(Mrs.) Joe Okei Odumakin of Campaign for Democracy and Women Arise,
Mrs. Abiola Akinyode-Afolabi of Women Advocates Research &
Documentation (WARDC), Dr (Mrs.) Oby Ezekwezile of Bring Back our
Girls group, among other women activists in the country, to rise
against the plan of unjust victimization of one of their own in the
bench, by the power that be in the land.
CSCEO boss saluted the uncommon courage of Justice Folahanmi Oloyede
during this trying period of standing up for truth and justice
because only truth and justice could build any society, describing
Oloyede as indomitable and incorruptible Judge Osun bench ever
produced and people should be proud of her by bringing uncommon
reputation to the Judicial sector of the country in recent time and as
well a believer of fairness, accountability and egalitarian society
as being preached by Osun Anthem.
Sulaiman then used the opportunity to reiterate the stand of the
Coalition, calling on National Judicial Council (NJC) to disregard any
call for the unjust victimization of Justice Oloyede by the bench‘s
apex body, maintaining that section 39 of the amended 1999
constitution has not been eroded the right of erudite jurist for being
the citizen of the State and by extension, the citizen of Nigeria, to
write such an imperishable opinion petition letter.