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NATIONAL CONFEB: EBIRA YOUTHS DEMAND MAYOR, SUPPORT RESOURCE CONTROL.
Ahead of the national conference, the Youths of Kogi central have advocated for the establishment of Mayor to solve the problems of social-political inequality in the country.
Mr Shaibu Stephen Ojate, civil right activist made this remark while addressing Journalists in Abuja on his positions for the national conference. He said, the people of Ebiraland have been marginalised in the scheme of things noting that Mayor will correct the anomaly. He said Mayor become important because it will not only solve the problem of political inequality; thus it will put an end to the issue of bad governance in the state.
‘Kogi Central needs mayor. We want Mayor to control our resource and administer our locality. The current system where Governor of the state control and dictate who gets what should be jettisoned as it breeds unhealthy rivalry between ethnic groups that constitute the state. This current system of government
does not encourage even development.’
‘We have been having Governor in Kogi stateand no even development across the state.The Governor only concentrates thedevelopmental projects in the senatorialdistrict where he hailed from’. This is what wehave been experiencing since 1999 till dates.
Enough is enough. We want our own system ofgovernment different from the state’‘We want the power of state Governor bereduced rather some of their power be given tolocal government chairmen in the state.’
‘On federal allocation, a system should be putin place so that every senatorial district inNigeria gets direct federal allocation from federal government unlike the current systemwhere state government received it’.
‘So, federal allocation under this system, theMayor and local government chairmen in each
senatorial district should control it for thedevelopment of their area’.
‘I strongly support the call for resourcecontrol. Each senatorial district in the countryshould control their own resource and remit
tax to federal government and state
government’.Ojate equally faulted the current federalsystem of government and call for restructuring. He canvasses for the creation of more local government for the people of Kogicentral to correct political imbalance in the state.
‘I maintained, should we continue the current federal system, I am advocating that every senatorial district in the country should have
equal number of local governments to solve political imbalance in the state’.
‘The creation of equal number of local governments will solve the problem of marginalization in the state. There will be fair play in the scheme of things in the state when
this is done, he said’.
Ojate noted that rotation of political position is the best things for the country and opinedthat it should form part of the Agenda of the
Kogi Central delegates to the conference.

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