BBC Documentary on Kankan School; Stop Blaming Past Govts, Take Responsibility

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kwara State chapter has asked the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) led by governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq to take responsibility for the governance and stop blaming past administrations.

This call was made in a press statement released by the Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olusegun Olusola Adewara (Sholyments), and made available to The Accurate News Nigeria.

The BBC documentary revealed the appalling state of education infrastructure in Kankan LGEA School, including pupils learning under trees and sitting on bare floors in dilapidated classrooms.

The statement read “Our Party, like every other concerned Kwarans, is highly disturbed that despite several media claims that government has invested over N14.2billion in basic schools across the state since 2020, Kankan LGEA School, just like many basic schools infrastructures are coming to deflate these propaganda and frauds plaguing our education system in Kwara.

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“We, therefore, demand publication of the number of Billions accessed from UBEC as counterpart funding for the years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017…..2021 and how these funds have been appropriated for public scrutiny, and the Kwaran People, on whose behalf this huge fund was accessed deserve to know how they are expended.

“We ask Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq and his government if they will also blame the PDP administration for the shoddy job done on Tanke Bridge which has made the Bridge the most controversial government project in Nigeria and uncommissinable since its renovation by Craneburg Construction LTD. Will they also blame PDP regime for how contractor employed by Governor Abdulrahman eloped with Transformers’ fund running into hundreds of millions Taxpayers’ money or is it how Government High School, Adeta contract was hyper inflated and shoddy job delivered. Will they blame the opposition parties for how a hospital in Patigi was renovated with more than N200m without working generator, hospital facilities and medical personnel, the list can go on and on.

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“While our Party applauds the commissioner of communication, Bunmi Olukoju, for public admission of failure when she noted that Abdulrazaq’s administration still grapples with burden of fixing most of basic things since 2019, we frown on her attempts to put the blame on PDP administration which left Kwara State as an outstanding performer in basic education and other sectors.

“If the commissioner could admit that Abdulrazaq’s government can not complete all basic school projects within 8 years, what moral justification does she have to expect PDP administration to have finished everything in the state before 2019 despite paucity of fund?

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“It should be noted that the huge billions received so far by the Abdulrazaq-led government including the reckless borrowing of more than N50bn have surpassed all the revenue incomes of the state between 2003 and 2019 when the PDP held sway.

“We commend the BBC correspondents for their courage in exposing this systemic fraud and call on other media houses to pursue investigative reporting that holds the government accountable to the people.

“Rather than blaming the PDP for its failures, the APC government should focus on being remorseful and apologizing to Kwarans for deceiving them with false propaganda since 2019, the Party submitted.”