BY LEO EZEKIEL
His
Excellency, the Executive Governor of Edo State Mr. Godwin Obaseki has
graciously held a media parley with journalists at the Nigeria Union of
Journalists NUJ, Edo State Council, Oba Oguola Press Centre, No. 1 Sir/Chief
Gabriel Igbeniodion Road, G.R.A, Benin City. Speaking to the members of the
fourth estate of the realm, he states that he pleasantly decided to reconnect
with the media adding that he was with the media men and women six years ago.
Speaking
further he noted that he believes largely that the journalists are very much
objective in their styles of reporting issues of interests to the general
public thereby the citizenry are correctly informed of the great strides of developments
his administration has done for the
public and civil service. In his words “I am here to tell you that we are still partners- in-progress”. They said Obaseki is not working, we have
not seen anything he has done, but, I want to tell you that we have done much
and very shortly we shall be rolling out our works. We are concerned about the
next generation of Edo. How do we ensure our children have the best and quality
education. Speaking again, His Excellency Obaseki uncommonly praised the
chairman of the council Comrade Festus Alenkhe for the ongoing massive
transformations at the Edo State NUJ noting that Comrade Alenkhe is equally
replicating the kind of heavy transformation his administration is carrying out
in Edo State particularly in the infrastructural developments. He congratulated
Mr. Chairman Comrade Alenkhe adding that there has been a great improvements he
saw as he drove in. In his words, I am
actually proud of you. I am really, really proud of you because you have taken
the kind of strides we are taking as a government. In providing answers to
the issues of bad roads around the state, he lamented that the federal
government has stalled their efforts in trying to repair the bad portions of
collapsed federal roads. He added that the federal road controller is always
telling them that he is in Abuja, thereby making it extreme difficult for the
matters to be discussed by parties involved. He added that the federal
government would say that contract has been awarded for the repairs, yet,
nothing worthwhile has been done. He added that it is really frustrating the
good jobs his administration is doing. He added that in the past when a state
government repairs any bad roads belonging to the federal government and when the
state government writes for refund of monies expended from federal government,
that such monies are refunded. He added that the federal government has made certain
policies very difficult for state governments, hence his administration cannot
repair bad federal government roads in the state.
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