We condemn the alleged atrocious plan of Ekiti PDP government to privatize the State’s dams and package its water for sale. Similarly the much touted Ikun diary farm and its golden cows would soon go for grabs, ostensibly to produce golden milk for sale by its buyers.

These dams and farms are the legacies left by the State’s founding fathers after other landmarks such as the State stadium, academic institutions and medical centers had become moribund, no thanks to a clueless but prodigal regime.

It is condemnable for a regime that creates no wealth to offer the ones created with popular sweat for the grabs of cronies and political parasites. This is what Yoruba calls ‘akotileta’(profligacy).

A regime that faltered greatly and failed in simple routinely programmes such as giving questionable tea to  school pupils is desirous in packaging water and milk in its usual careless fashion for sale, thereby compounding the peoples political woes with health hazards.

The numerous dams and farms in the State are generational legacies spanning the reigns of General Adeyinka Adebayo, late Chief Adekunle Ajasin and Otunba Niyi Adebayo. They are public utilities for the use of the people. The recent sharing arrangement of these legacies by the PDP is unpatriotic and a bold attempt to erase the traces of popular ownership of Ekiti State.

We wish to alert our people to run away from the purchase of such alleged packaged liquid of death, as the memories of the infantile fatality of the egg and tea policy still linger.

It is a pity that the PDP government is abandoning leprosy to chase ringworm. The millions of Ekiti State money shared to stakeholders of 2007 electoral fraud in the guise of micro-credit had been outstanding with no assurance of recovery.

About two years after the PDP government had sliced Ekiti State treasury to pieces into the pockets of political scavengers, it had carried on as if nothing had happened, threatening to even pay hapless workers half salaries while the locusts feed on.

The PDP regime should justify the huge resources both federal and internal, those that had accrued to it since 2007 and explain why such billions of naira could only fetch the people hardship and decayed infrastructure.

We warn those who may wish to join the cartel of these economic raiders not to conspire with the aberrant regime to turn Ekiti into a mercantile commodity.
Ekiti people would retrieve all their losses and stolen goods at the appropriate time.
 

Yemi Adaramodu
Director of Communication
Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation
July 26, 2009