AMOS DUNIA, (Daily Sun) Abuja
Monday, July 12, 2010
Two Senators from Kogi State have condemned attempt by the administration of Governor Ibrahim Idris to change the location mapped out by the Federal Government for a proposed refinery in the state.
The senators, at a press conference in Abuja accused the administration of embarking on tribal politics by deliberately issuing a certificate of occupancy on a vast piece of land in Itobe, Ofu Local Government Area of the state to a Chinese company for the building of a refinery as against the original site along Lokoja and Okenne Road in West and Central Senatorial Districts of the state respectively.
The two Senators, Smart Adeyemi (Kogi West) and Otaru Ohize (Kogi Central), accused Governor Idris’ administration of tribalism, stressing that the decision, “is to say the least, a calculated attempt to further polarize the people of the state and in particular marginalise the affected two senatorial districts.”
The senators, therefore, urged the Federal Government to jettison the political consideration applied by the state government by allowing purely economic considerations to guide it in siting the refinery project if it is not to suffer the same fate like dead industries in the country.
Senator Adeyemi noted that when the late Sardauna of Sokoto, as premier of Northern region, was siting Ahmadu Bello University, he could have sited it in Sokoto but took it to Zaria. He stressed that what Nigerians presently have are tribal leaders who merely talk of the need for people to come together but work assiduously to polarize the same people.
According to Senator Adeyemi, “Sardauna of Sokoto came to Kabba and established College of Agriculture in 1963. At that time, many states with universities today did not have secondary schools. Saudana of Sokoto, who sited college of agriculture in Kabba, would have sited it in Kebbi or Yauri but he brought it to Kabba. What we are saying is that today you have leaders who are encouraging tribalism and nepotism in government”
Speaking in the same vein, Senator Otaru Ohize (PDP Kogi Central) said a refinery is an economic venture and not a political activity arguing that economic indices should be taken into due consideration in order to sustain its viability.
Senator Ohize noted that most of the nation’s economic projects failed owing to political consideration at play when they were sited, stressing that the proposed refinery in Kogi was conceived by the Federal Government to meet the petroleum needs of the nation’s capital, Abuja and other states in the North Central geopolitical zone.
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Two Senators from Kogi State have condemned attempt by the administration of Governor Ibrahim Idris to change the location mapped out by the Federal Government for a proposed refinery in the state.
The senators, at a press conference in Abuja accused the administration of embarking on tribal politics by deliberately issuing a certificate of occupancy on a vast piece of land in Itobe, Ofu Local Government Area of the state to a Chinese company for the building of a refinery as against the original site along Lokoja and Okenne Road in West and Central Senatorial Districts of the state respectively.
The two Senators, Smart Adeyemi (Kogi West) and Otaru Ohize (Kogi Central), accused Governor Idris’ administration of tribalism, stressing that the decision, “is to say the least, a calculated attempt to further polarize the people of the state and in particular marginalise the affected two senatorial districts.”
The senators, therefore, urged the Federal Government to jettison the political consideration applied by the state government by allowing purely economic considerations to guide it in siting the refinery project if it is not to suffer the same fate like dead industries in the country.
Senator Adeyemi noted that when the late Sardauna of Sokoto, as premier of Northern region, was siting Ahmadu Bello University, he could have sited it in Sokoto but took it to Zaria. He stressed that what Nigerians presently have are tribal leaders who merely talk of the need for people to come together but work assiduously to polarize the same people.
According to Senator Adeyemi, “Sardauna of Sokoto came to Kabba and established College of Agriculture in 1963. At that time, many states with universities today did not have secondary schools. Saudana of Sokoto, who sited college of agriculture in Kabba, would have sited it in Kebbi or Yauri but he brought it to Kabba. What we are saying is that today you have leaders who are encouraging tribalism and nepotism in government”
Speaking in the same vein, Senator Otaru Ohize (PDP Kogi Central) said a refinery is an economic venture and not a political activity arguing that economic indices should be taken into due consideration in order to sustain its viability.
Senator Ohize noted that most of the nation’s economic projects failed owing to political consideration at play when they were sited, stressing that the proposed refinery in Kogi was conceived by the Federal Government to meet the petroleum needs of the nation’s capital, Abuja and other states in the North Central geopolitical zone.
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