Accountability:  PDP Urges  Lawmakers to Revisit FOI Act in Kwara

Hammed Shittu in Ilorin

Kwara State Chapter of the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the members of the state House of Assembly to revisit the Freedom of Information Act that was passed into law by the immediate past administration so as to bring transparency and accountability to the act of governance in the state.

The state chairman of the PDP, Hon. Babatunde Muhammed, stated this in Ilorin on Tuesday during a press conference on the sideline of the inauguration of the five newly elected members of the state working committee of the party.

The affected are new SWC members of the party are Alhaji Idris Mudashiru  (Deputy Chairman), Mr, Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode (State Secretary), Mr. Olusegun Olusola Adewara, (Publicity Secretary), Mrs. Ramat Segilola AbdulKadir( Women Leader) and Mallam Mohammed Abdulmumini( Acting Youth Leader).m

He said that the revisit of the FOI Act would also bring equitable utilisation of state’s allocations and thereby bringing government nearer to the rural populace.

The PDP chieftain stated that, “the passage of the FOI Act will give citizens the legal power to enquire about government incomes and expenditures as this would allow them to properly informed about the financial status of the state.”

On the state of governance since 2019, Muhammed expressed concern that despite the cash inflow into the state, the present administration cannot commission any tangible projects.

He said: “It is worrisome that despite this huge cash inflow to Kwara State, Kwarans could not see anything on ground across the state that commiserate with the income and huge debt imposed on the state since 2019.”

“I want to say that, this is the only government that has broken a negative record that in almost five years, the governor has not able to commission a single infrastructural project that is fully state funded from start to commission. This is first time Kwarans will be witnessing such a calamity since 1999.

“Indeed, this is a trying time for the Kwarans and the meager resources that were well managed for the optimum services of the people by our government are now being pitilessly squandered from all fronts by the political merchants that have 

Muhammed, however, called on the newly inaugurated state working committee of the PDP to work as a team so as to ensure the return of the party come 2027.

He said that the introduction of capable youths into the state working committee of the party underscores the readiness of our party to make the platform more attractive to the younger population of Kwarans.

“I want to say that the appointment of the new state working committee of the party represent 80 per cent youth organ of the PDP in Kwara State.”

Muhammed therefore said that, the party would continue to raise young people in order to enable them contribute more to the growth of the party in the state.