By Taiwo Adisa
Why do the critics come so hard on him? Why do they spit fire and venom against his person? Nothing to search too far.
*He came, he saw the state in a deep hole and he is pulling it out of dungeon
He came and made governance simple and real.
*He declared Free a d Qualitative Education, an impossibility in their dictionary.
* He scrapped N3,000 levy they imposed on poor students of public schools
* His critics revelled in that money and used as slush funds for their fancy and their tails.
* He uncovered and recovered N1.2bn proceeds of that money from private accounts.
* GSM paid grants to all schools at N1k per child and has paid N526 million each for first and 2nd terms of 2019/2020 session so far.
*He announced a 4-Point Agenda covering Security, Health, Education and Economy to lift state from poverty to prosperity(P2P).
*He cancelled the Moniya-Iseyin road contract they awarded and never intended to execute.
* He re-awarded the same to first class contractor with better quality assurance for execution in 12 months.
*The improved road contract has a component of street lights on either side.
*He seized half of the N2bn they paid that incompetent contractor and ploughed same to the new contract.
*They ran him into booby traps to completely derail his government but he has unsettled the trap setters and beaten them to their game.
* He fixed the Adeoyo State Hospital Ring Road, Ibadan in a jiffy after they had grounded the same to promote private business
* They jerked up the state’s salary structure by over N1bn with less than a month to leave office in 2019 but GSM is paying without sweat on 25th- the GSM date.
* They awarded bogus road contracts, paid huge sums and left contractors with Mickey mouse displays for eight years.
*They wrote the state into servitude with the contract papers that made revocation difficult, even when the job is abandoned.
*The free meal is over and the rats and roaches are angry as they cry like the unAfrican child.
* They left the entire Agodi Secretariat in ruins and darkness, with directors contributing to fund generators just to do a little work.
* Now GSM is fixing the Secretariat
*They left teachers unpaid and reduced pensioners to awaiting death with only 20% pension payable monthly.
* Now GSM is paying 100% of pensions on the appointed GSM date.
* They reduced gratuities to partisan matter- convert to their party and get paid .
* They left multitude of gratuities unpaid from 2010 to 2019, now GSM has cleared up to 2014.
* In 96 days, just less than 100 days, GSM paid more pension that dwarfed the amount they ever paid in all of their 96 months.
* They sacked more than 2,000 workers on flimsy and unconscionable excuses, leading several workers to drag govt to court.
* GSM has recalled many of the victimised workers and reinstated all those who got judgement.
*They cornered and converted for personal use public land and properties including the historical Government House used by Lord Luggard, Obafemi Awolowo and SLA Akintola.
*They got hailed by Caterpillar suppliers for being the heaviest buyer of excavators in the country but none of the said excavators is seen a month after they left office.
* They got N7.6bn agric loan from CBN and was at the verge of bulkanising the same into private pockets when GSM surfaced and blocked that.
* They awarded a kilometre of road for the price of four and left the roads abandoned still. GSM’s govt is still struggling to extricate itself from at least many such contracts.
*They put up an unworkable refuse collection programme that encouraged littering of road medians with refuse and even the contractor won’t pay road sweepers for several months.
* The did untold damage… even colonialists with allegiance to other continents did better.
*It is shameful they still have the guts to raise their voice against a man who is clearing the huge mess they left behind.
* They refused to recruit teachers in eight years, despite annual retirement in big numbers
*In eight years, they refused to make furniture for public schools, leaving students to sit on bare floors.
…seen the source of their anger? GSM is exposing their legacy of rot.
* Yes they ‘ve got to be angry for they love not the poor.
*In saner climes, they would have buried their heads better than the ostrich …in shame.
RIDE ON GSM!
#GSMACTIONISSPEAKING
