My Integrity Issues with Ogbeni - Part 1

So many times when I write about the government of Ogbeni Aregbe, a whole lot of people tend to misinterpret my criticism as being that borne out of my political sympathy for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that was sent packing on the 26th November 2010. However, I may be in agreement with the PDP on certain policies of theirs, yet I disagree with them on other major issues.
Speaking in clear terms, my feelings against Ogbeni Aregbe is not borne out of political affiliations of mine, but out of the complications surrounding his integrity. I mean, his integrity is very questionable. Do not rush, I will throw more light.

EDUCATION
When Ogbeni came in, he made several public outcries concerning the deplorable state that he met the education sector in Osun State (I refuse to call my state the State of Osun), and castigated his predecessor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola over non-performance in this vital sector. He promised, as most politicians will do, that before the end of their first tenure in office, his government would have developed the education sector to enviable points.
However, 3 years down the line, what do we have? Let us do a checklist.
He began a policy whereby all students and pupils in Osun State are to wear the same uniform. My issue with this move is, where do we put student identification in this policy? How exactly do we curb truancy when a student of Ogiyan High School far from my house can easily mingle with students of ADS High School without being singled out? I would have loved for this policy to have been in place since my days in Secondary School, it would have afforded me the opportunity to sneak out of school in broad daylight without the fear of being caught!
He began the building of Mega Schools in a bid to improve infrastructural facilities in the education sector. Three years down the line, all these buildings are still works in progress with most of them being between 40-50% completion stages. This means so far, Ogbeni has had no contribution to the improvement in infrastructure of the education sector of Osun State, rather, his contributions are still struggling in the pipeline while our students and pupils still utilize the ‘Oyin Ni O’ buildings of the Oyinlola administration which Ogbeni claimed were death traps. One other thing that is called into question is, how can an Engineer (as he refers to himself) fail to complete one-storey buildings in 3 years? Or, is he a ‘kangaroo’ Engineer?
He has made so much noise about the ‘opon imo’ thing saving some phantom billions. My question against his integrity in this case is, how durable will those tablets be? If they are a cheaper alternative to paper textbooks, are they durability alternatives too? I believe textbooks can last for as long as 25 years and even more if properly handled, can those tablets last 5 years at all? Is this not some kind of policy that will result in wastage eventually? This is a serious question of integrity.
There has been so much noise about the school feeding programme. He makes this much noise that will make one wonder if those pupils are being served with gold plates or if this is an entirely new policy. Truth be said, this programme was started by Oyinlola, and Ogbeni’s effort is just a continuation of something commenced by Lagun. How peculiar are his efforts?
Let us look in other directions too.

PUBLIC HEALTH
On a visit to the State Hospital, Asubiaro I discovered that every structure standing in the premises of that hospital was built by the Oyinlola administration same with most of the hospitals in the state. This means, Ogbeni has had no meaningful contribution to the improvement of health care delivery in the state. What will be the merit of his administration in this regard?
The Mosquito net intervention of the Federal Government was almost hijacked by Ogbeni placing banners around the centres where the nets were distributed signalling ‘State of Osun Distribution of Mosquito Nets’. This move puts his integrity in serious question. Why must he attempt to usurp the efforts of the Federal Government?

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