I have been making critical reviews of budgetary allocations by the State Government in Kogi over the last 3 years. A state that is unable to pay workers should not be audacious enough to expend over 8 Billion on running the Government House in one year. While there are already deficits of development in Kogi State, leadership must not be seen to be expanding the gaping hole of underdevelopment in the state. We must cut the cost of governance and ensure that we plough savings back to development. We are bordered by Anambra State which has a very low debt profile but faithful to workers. They have made judicious use of extra-budgetary income channels, which Kogi also enjoyed. You cannot have a productive workforce with such levels of provocative deprivation. Costs of running the service must also be addressed to ensure that workers welfare is prioritised. So, we will make costs of running government an agreed/fixed fraction of a key cost for development such as Roads Repairs, Schools Rehabilitation and Healthcare Delivery.

It is about capacity for creative holism - management that sees the bigger picture from the small parts and which adjusts actions of the small parts to the bigger goals. People who know me well, know that I see systems not parts. It is how societies progress.

Let's do this together KOGI.

#WeCan #TAKEITBACK

AGUDA