A chieftain of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), Engineer Hakeem Alao, has declared that the recently introduced Park Management System by Governor Seyi Makinde will never lay to rest the likely unrest, violence and chaos associated with the leadership of NURTW in the state.
Engineer Alao, who was the AD governorship candidate in the March 2019 general election, said it was not the duty of the state government to appoint park managers for motor parks across Oyo state, saying, it was the duty of the local government to construct and manage parks.
According to the AD Chieftain, the PMS policy by the Governor Makinde led administration won’t lay to rest the likely unrest, violence and chaos associated with the leadership of NURTW in the state.
He emphasized that the recently introduced Park Management System in Oyo state was wrong and nothing but a misplaced priority.
“The newly introduced Park Management System (PMS) is a good policy but, again, not well thought out and delivered. Apart from the fact that park construction, management and operations is a constitutional duty of the local government housed under Fourth Schedule, 1 (f) of the 1999 Constitution, it has been clear that the state government was all out to compensate a faction of the state’s NURTW and this has not been fair enough for a government portraying itself as honest and sincere.”, he said.
“PMS as constituted across the state now has never laid to rest and will never lay to rest the likely unrest, violence and chaos associated with the leadership of NURTW in the state”.
Speaking on the prolonged crisis rocking local government administration in Oyo state, Engr Alao advised Governor Makinde against contemplating paying off sacked local government chairmen in the state with a sum of N7billion, saying doing so, would be “senseless, suicidal and criminal”.
According to him, there won’t be basis for the governor to pay off the sacked local government chairmen and councillors N7billion at the expense of the people of the state, saying, it would be a prodigal son’s way if Governor Makinde pay off the sacked chairmen such huge amount of money and at the same time pay the caretaker chairmen he recently appointed”.
“To the issue of the sacked ALGON, whether the sacked chairmen would accept the offer of pay-off or not, the present administration under Engineer Seyi Makinde should realize that, at this point in time, it would be senseless, suicidal and criminal to pay off such a humongous amount of money to the chairmen who have not been allowed to serve their tenure considering the fact that the state’s IGR has not really picked up.”, he said.
