Kwara state PDP on Sunday said the publication by the Kwara state Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS) showing that the revenue generation agency had generated Twenty Three Billion, four hundred and sixty million Naira (N23.46B) between January and September 2022, has gotten the party vindicated.
The party added that the revenue agency had also noted that it generated one hundred Billion, six hundred and eighty million Naira (N100.68B) between 2019 and September 15th 2022 while the state government had according to the party received over two hundred Billion Naira (+-N200B) from the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) since 2019.
PDP added that the state government had also accessed over Forty six Billion in loans and also got grants from both foreign and local donor agencies. The party also made reference to the N5.2 billion that the former Ilorin zonal head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Isyaku Sharu ensured that the immediate past administration did not touch.
The state PDP in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Hon Tunji Morunfoye which was made available to Team@orientactualmags.com on Sunday claimed that Kwara state people had not felt the effect of the massive funds made available to the current administration in the state which is headed by Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq.
PDP also alleged that there had been lack of transparency in the running of the affairs of the KWIRS.
‘We have always maintained that the All Progressives Congress APC party regime led by Mal Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq lacks innovative and creative ideas. We are clearly vindicated by the above unprecedented figures of hundreds of billions generated internally by the KWIRS, the FAAC allocation to Kwara state, various grants and the huge loans obtained by the incompetent APC party regime, within a period of just over three years in power.
Since the inauguration of this unfortunate Kwara state APC regime in May 2019, Kwarans have been inundated with news of various sleazy, allegations of graft and contract padding against them. We have seen wasteful white elephant and elitist projects, which are incomplete even after over three years. We have seen various state programmes that were money- wasting jamborees. Examples include but are not limited to; “Breaking the glass ceiling” political jamboree. Various all- expenses- paid trips abroad for Government officials, where investors are allegedly being sought. No foreign direct investment has come to Kwara state till today after all the wasteful trips.
We all remember the now infamous jamboree trip to an African country, where the Kwara State House of Assembly Members (KWHA) wastefully lavished close to half a billion Naira.
Rather unfortunately, the Kwara APC party regime is in cahoots with the KWHA, and they have refused vehemently to pass the freedom of information bill (FOI Bill) for over three years. This is the law that would have allowed Kwarans to ask questions legally about the state’s financial (mis)management and how Kwara resources are being spent recklessly.
The immediate past Administration that established the KWIRS, gave Kwarans monthly briefings about revenue and expected expenditure. Sadly this great innovation has become a forgotten memory. The current APC party regime has shrouded all state revenue and expenditure in secrecy. Kwarans have been relegated to minuscule and badly stage- managed information on state revenue and expenditure as released by paid state agents and the media e-rats’ he said.
‘We cannot but wonder that after all the massive inflow of hundreds of billion Naira into Kwara state coffers, why Kwarans have to endure hardships of collapsed infrastructure, collapsed social and environmental services, pothole- riddled roads, unpaid seven months salaries of Kwara state workers at Harmony holdings (Kwara hotels), lack of serviceable vehicles at Kwara Express, lack of diagnostic test equipment at the Harmony Advanced Diagnostic center and lack of serious empowerment initiatives for our young people.
Not to mention the comatose state of Kwara state agriculture. We are also concerned about the lack of adequate support for our security personnel and the lackluster treatment of our hardworking civil servants. One would have expected the economy of Kwara state to reap bountifully from the multiplier effects of such humongous income into Kwara state, however we only see poverty and harsh disparity.
This means that graft and capital flight is the order of the day in Kwara state’ the party added- Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you
