The Nigerian
PUBLISHED SINCE MAY 29, 1968 • Vol. 39 NO. 025 • WEDNESDAY, JULY 2 , 2014 . N100.00 POLITICAL PLATFORM Page 13
Corruption among politicians in high places
Constituency Dev Fund: Bill scales
By EDITH IMOISILI
ABUJA - The House of Representatives has moved for the establishment of Nigeria’s Constituencies Development Fund, as a Bill to that effect scaled
second reading
second reading during yesterday’s plenary. When established, the Fund would ensure even development of the country’s 360 Federal Constituencies in the
Oshiomhole blasts Ize-Iyamu By ADAMS OYIBOKE
MIDWEEK MAGAZINE Pages 16-17 Local Council Elections in the UK, a worthy example for Nigeria
country. Sponsor of the proposed legislation, Mr Ben Nwankwo while leading debate on its general principles argued that over 70
percent of Nigerians live in rural communities which the existing Federal Constituencies covered but are hardly feeling the presence of government. According to him, the establishment of the Fund Continues on page 2
BENIN CITY - GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has challenged Pastor Osagie IzeIyamu, former Secretary to the State Government (SSG) during the administration of Chief Lucky Igbinedion, to render his account of stewardship as SSG. He threw the challenge that was due to the yesterday when he massive support from you received over 2,000 Market Women. “After the defeat, a man Market Women from across the 18 Local who claims to be a Pastor, Government Areas of the Osagie Ize-Iyamu, insisted state who paid him a on being imposed on Edo solidarity visit at the People as the Governor. I Government House, refused because I said, as former Chief of Staff to the Benin City. He pointed out that State Government, what Pastor Ize-Iyamu failed to did you do? “What effort did you use his office to make in bringing positive impact on the make development to Edo people of the state. Oshiomhole said “I People? Did you give your defeated the Peoples people electricity? Did you Democratic Party in all give them water? Did you the Wards and Local give them good roads? Governments in the last How did you influence the election conducted and government in bringing development to even your
- Says ‘He failed Edo people’
constituencies? Did you bring hospital to the people? Oshiomhole added. “Even as Secretary to the State Government, I requested to know from him how he impacted on the government. All the money that came from Abuja during his tenure as SSG, he was first to
receive, what did he do with it? How many markets did he build with it? Which erosion did he assist in controlling even at a time when erosion was a threat to the people of the state? “Everywhere I go, people begin to ask me, why did you always allow this man to go with you?
Like you the Market Women have said, in the morning, you see some of them as PDP, at night they become APC, and how can you commit the resources of the State to such people? Oshiomhole asked. The governor continued, “For me, I
cannot bring such a man because a gateman that cannot watch over the house cannot be seen as a good security man. A woman who is given money for home upkeep and instead decides to hide it for her own selfish interest cannot be entrusted with money Continues on page 2
Edo moves against fake VIOs
BENIN CITY- Edo State Government has warned some agents purporting to be Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO) and extorting money from unsuspecting motorists to stop parading themselves as such or face the wrath of the law. Addressing the press after the weekly State Executive Council meeting, yesterday, the State Commissioner for Information, Hon Louis Odion recalled that some men in Pink TShirts who had been harassing motorists were stopped by the state Government just a
few weeks ago, He said: “the exco met today and it was observed that there was a clear directive two weeks ago that men wearing pink uniforms should desist from harassing motorists on our roads, it was observed that in the last few days there has been a proliferation of men wearing white and black uniforms on our roads purporting to be Vehicle Inspection Officers or agents or volunteers working with VIOs. “The exco strongly condemns this and
TIT BIT “A smile and a hug may lift people above the walls of hatred; but forgiveness and forgetfulness are the actual tools that break down the walls of hatred.” - Kinglsey Ogbeide-Ihama
consider it unacceptable. The Commissioner for Transport has been directed to communicate with the VIO unit of the Transport Ministry, withdrawing such unit and formations from our roads and they are to desist from their activities of either purporting to inspect vehicles on the streets or highways Continues on page 2
SOLIDARITY VISIT: Governor Adams Oshiomhole (left) addressing market women from across the state, led by Madam Blackky Omoregie, who were at the Government House to pay the Governor a solidarity visit, yesterday.
Renovation Of Chambers
Speaker, other lawmakers inspect project
BENIN CITYThe Speaker, Edo State House of Assembly, Hon. Uyi Igbe has led other Principal Officers of the House to inspect ongoing renovation work being carried out in the Assembly complex. During the Inspection, Hon. Uyi Igbe affirmed that the on-going fortification of the complex will not affect the scheduled sitting of the House today, July 2, 2014. The inspection of the re-
enforcement of the entrance in and out of
the legislative chamber saw members assessing
the extent of work done at the doors leading to
the chamber, public and press galleries of the complex. It was observed that the doors have been reContinues on page 2
their counterparts across the country to observe the indefinite strike action declared by the National body of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).
A visit to federal government-owned University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) and the state public health institutions revealed that, Doctors
duty posts in observance of the strike. At the Central Hospital and Stella Obasanjo Hospital, Patients were Continues on page 2
Doctors strike paralyses hospitals were absent from their
By FRIDAY OBANOR BENIN CITY Doctors in both federal and state government owned hospitals in Edo State yesterday joined