Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Burutu Bad Leadership: IPDI Tackles Angele, Shame On You For Listing 20 Wooden Toilets Your Completed Constituency Legacy Projects, Says Your Leadership Lacks Focus And Direction




Burutu Bad Leadership: IPDI Tackles Angele, Shame On You For Listing 20 Wooden Toilets Your Completed Constituency Legacy Projects, Says Your Leadership Lacks Focus And Direction

Francis Tayor

Warri______ The Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative IPDI, has bombarded the wabu dancing Chairman of Burutu Local Government Council of Delta State, Hon.Godknows Angele and his media aprons for listing wooden toilets as his major completed constituency legacy projects in his two years in office, noting that it is a pity and shame for Burutu people to be misled by this visionless man called Angele.

The group made this known through a Press Statement signed by its Spokesman, Comrade (Mayor) Timi Ogobiri lamented that, despite the financial autonomy couple with the huge federal allocation enjoyed by the council, what Angele could boast of was the construction of twenty out dated wooden public toilets across some villages, painting and little renovation of already build structures by previous regimes as his constituency projects.

According to the Press Statement reads;

" Our attention has been drawn to a report purportedly emanated from Mr.Godknows Angele, Burutu LGA boss in response to IPDI open letter addreressed to him. The said reply is unguided and frivolous has it fulls with distorted facts made to mislead the gullible public to curry cheap sympathy.

The poor and watery reply by Angele which has no caption failed to address the critical issues raised in our open letter which has been applauded by the general public. We are not perturbed over his reply as it is self exalting. It is a lie that Burutu was a ghost town when Angele took over from his predecessor as chairman. Burutu was never a ghost town when Angele took office. It is disappointing for the chairman to mentioned 100kv generator acquired by the council to power the secretariat, little note books he claimed to have offered to Ayakoromo primary school pupils as legacy.

However, the credibility of IPDI is not indoubt, the public can attest to It. We are not perturbed and distracted by distorted facts being canvassed in the public places by Angele and his paid writers who do not mean well for Burutu People.

It is said that the success of evil is when the good ones seat down and does nothing about it. This is indeed the stark reality before we as members of the Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI.

It is no longer a news that Burutu Local Government Area under the leadership of Angele has lost bearing and focus, such that bad leadership has become the order of the day.

IPDI will not join issues with kids protecting their daily bread, but sometimes we wonder that even kids too can be reasonable a times, we will never be distracted by such sponsored group of kids.

We have watched Angele and his visionless leadership that is approaching two years now without any tangible and reasonable achievement that is worthy of commendation, hence the reason we have come out to expose his inefficiency.
First and foremost, Angele is a product of imposition, he was imposed on the people of Burutu Local Government Area, due to this fact, he thinks he is untouchable, we are here to let him know that soon actions will be taken for him to give account on how he has spent our monies over the  years, let us see how he will escape this media battle, he should be ready to face us.
Anyway, for the purpose of the general public, Local Government Councils as the third tier of Government in Nigeria and has the statutory duty to carter for those at the grass root.
For example,  Water, Electricity, Education, Youth empowerments and even Health care among very many challenges are critical areas that needed to be looked into by any serious administration but all these means nothing to Mr. Chairman and his misguided crew.

It becomes more worrisome how lamentations upon lamentations have rented the entire length and breadth of our dear Burutu Local Government Area, despite the financial autonomy enjoyed by councils accros the country to which Burutu is part of, for the entire country, Burutu is among the Local Governments Councils in Nigeria that is receiving highest allocation but yet nothing to show for. No wonder people are calling for the scrapping of local governments in the country as it has become a conduit pipe in siphoning public wealth.

We saw a watery response to our earlier position about the poor performance from his media aprons with distorted facts but they are yet to debunk our claims or critical and contentious issues raised.
Burutu, headquarter of the Local Government Area is in total darkness since September 16th 2019, 13days from now, it will complete one full year that Burutu will be in total darkness for a chairman that prides himself as working, this is really terrifying, you can fool people but definitely not IPDI.

The general public must know that the generator that was powering Burutu before the emergence of Angele was bought by a caretaker committee chairman not even elected council chairman without local government financial autonomy, Capt. Bukman Deine (Rt) but regrettably, the administration of Angele came onboard and spoiled the generator hence the community begin to wallow in darkness.

It is no longer a news that even when the purported light was said to be on, it was about six to seven hours, the light does not last for the whole night, this is the true situation even when the said light was on.  This is pathetic, what does it really cost to give the people of Burutu at least 12 hours light?.

We saw a report about the council chairman completing 20 constituency projects in the Local Government, this is another funny record that the public must know. Burutu Local Government Area has grown beyond this political gimmicks, 20 wooden toilets were built and we now count that as a legacy or achievement, what a pity? Oh! Wooden toilets not even block building. We are really ashamed of this. If this is really the plans Angele have for us as a people with wooden toilets, then count us out.

Go and check round the Local Government Area that since the emergence of Angele as council chairman, he has not built any structure on his own to the level of completion, he is only good at painting, little renovations as if it cost much from the allocations he had been receiving for almost two years now. All what he has claimed to have done are little things one month allocation could take care of, as purported achievements cum legacies he is talking and bragging about. His tenure as council chairman of Burutu is already counting.

Hon.Braduce built the Governor's lodge now known as chairman's official residence, not one zink or wood was changed on the roof, just painting and funiture inside were done. Stop misleading the people as if much was done and spent on where he will be putting up while in Burutu, it was for his personal use.
As you can see, almost all the works the chairman made reference to were all renovations with many yet to even be completed.

There is something his paid writers fail to mention as achievement, we guess it escaped them, before his hundred days in office, Angele rushed to do a kangaroo bore hole water, the water is not only bad, not consumable but very dangerous for human consumption and at the moment, the water is no more working as it amounts to waste of public funds all in his desperate moves to personal luxuries.
On youth empowerment is totally nothing to write home about. Bursary to encourage students of the Local Government Area is completely nothing to show for, we begin to ask, what is the council chairman really doing since he assumes office till now?

The Burutu Area command could not come to Burutu to assume office because the chairman could not finish the renovation for almost a year now. Nothing is said about the internally generated revenue accruing to the council. Besides allocation, what about the whooping paris club money?

Again, don't make people believe that you made street lights available to power the whole Burutu town, never, the thing is that he bought a generator for his personal use and later connected some funny lights in some areas leading to some of his workers at Chief Helene Enekorogha's hotel in low beach area near the secretariat. It is not as if so much money was spent to provide street lights for the entire Burutu community.

This is becoming interesting to us, we will continue to expose bad leadership in Nigeria, thanks for Angele media team for coming out to dare us to speak, we are fully ready for you people with more facts. The public should be aware that all the talks about his performance is only centered on Burutu community alone, we have not even extended it to other communities in the Local Government Area and by the time we extend it to other numerous communities, then you will know the emptiness of Angele government, the statement adds."

Signed:
Comrade (Mayor) TIMI OGOBIRI
Spokesman IPDI.

2 comments:

  1. The bogus and unfounded claims of IPDI against the Burutu LGA Boss.

    It is really stupifying for any person or group of persons to make bugos claims about someone who is his little time has shown commitment for the progress of the Local Government.Any claim purporting that the Chairman has performed below expectation is a far cry from the fact on ground.Such person with such claim is either looking for cheap recognition or someone with an ungrateful heart.

    We have an adage in Ijaw which says,'One should appreciate one for little effort of good act'

    Hon.Godknows Angele sincerely deserves appreciation and encouragement and not vilification.Those carrying out this act of ungratefulness should please visit Burutu main town and other communities in the LGA before you malign the reputation of people oriented Chairman...Any act of libel against the Chairman's personality or the office should be unequivocally condemned by all well meaning people of Burutu.

    The following, though not exhaustive are some of the laudable and projects policies executed by the Divine Mandate administration of Hon Godknows.

    1. Renovation of health centers: Torugbene, Ayakoromo, Tuomo,Egodor and host of others in our LGA.

    2. Constituency projects in the 20 wards in the LGA, all completed and paid for.

    3. Supply of equipments to health centres.

    4. Solar power project in Odimodi.

    5. He employed 50 primary school teachers.

    6. He employed over 500 sweepers, creating jobs for Burutu people.

    7. Prompt payment of LGA workers salaries. It's worthy of note that he cleared the salary backlog owed by the previous administration in his first month in office.

    8. He set up a strong a security outfit to ensure that our water ways are safe for businesses.

    9. Mr chairman's peace building efforts are unprecedented, he proactively settled communal crises in Ojobo,Tuomo,Tamigbe-Tobegbe, Ogulagha, Odimodi just to mention a few.

    10. Provision of steady power supply to the entire Burutu community until the power plant packed up. Plans are concluded to purchase a new power plants.

    11. Building and renovation of town halls and a host of other projects.


    12. Five(5) two storey quarters and the chamber complex is ongoing. This is first in the history of Delta State.

    13. Residences and offices of the newly created Burutu Police Area Command are ongoing. Hon. Godknows took this proactive steps to ensure that the area command office stays in Burutu as other LGAs made efforts to move the Area head office out of Burutu with excuses that there are no residence and office spaces available in Burutu.

    I can go on, but I think these are enough for everyone to make unbiased and informed assessment of Hon. Godknows Angele's performance so far.

    Now, tell which previous local administration has done more than these in one and a half years. Please let's encourage him to do more rather than destructive criticisms.

    With these facts, I can safely conclude that Mr Chairman has delivered on his promises.
    He's not deterred, but is determine to do more for Burutu people.

    Today the students community under the auspices of National association of Burutu local government students NABLOGS WORLD-WIDE will be visiting Burutu main town to also physically verify some salient issues and to tell IPDI that their claims and accusations against the people's Chaiman is biased and repulsive to natural Justice equity and good conscience.i therefore call on the IPDI as a matter of importance follow us Burutu to confirm by themselves too.

    A call has been made to the SA to the Chaiman on Students and he affirmed that all the allegations build by the IPDI are nothing but cheap talks aim at getting cheap recognition from the unwary and gullible citizens of Burutu.A word is a enough for the wise.

    COMR.AZIGBEOTU K.SAMSON
    PRESIDENT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BURUTU LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDENTS NABLOGS WORLD-WIDE.

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  2. Am perplexed.
    Angele was seen as a visionary leader during the first 100 days in office.
    We where very proud of him.
    Base on his first efforts to transform burutu LGA & communities we where abusing the former chairman.

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