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The People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Kwara State has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to approve what it described as frivolous ten billion naira request by the Governor, saying that the facility, if granted, will place another burden on the state because of lack of financial transparency by the government.
It also berated Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for what it described as insensitive and unresponsive attitude towards the victims of rainstorm in the State.
State PDP Chairman, Engineer Kola Shittu while addressing a press conference in Ilorin the state capital, said that Governor Abdulrazaq has shown lack of human empathy and gross insensitivity to the life-threatening disaster occasioned by the recent torrential rainstorm across the State.
Engineer Shittu expressed worry that, Forty-Eight hours after the government set up a committee on the disaster, no concrete step or action has been taken and wondered how the Governor came about the report that fifteen thousand persons have been displaced and properties and farm products worth ten billion naira damaged.
The PDP Chairman also called for an independent investigation into gross allegation of financial recklessness against the state government where local council funds are unaccounted for as well as high level corruption and diversion of public funds by senior officials of the State Internal Revenue Service.
While appreciating His Royal Highness, the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari for his swift response in supporting the victims, Engineer Shittu condemned the Governor’s trip to Abuja to request for mattresses, zinc- roofs and food items when the State Government could have provided them.
Radio Nigeria
