Bad Leadership: Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative IPDI, Hits Hon.Angele At The Head, Says He Has Failed Burutu People As Council Chairman
Francis Tayor
WARRI_____The Ijaw right group known as, Ijaw People's Development initiative, IPDI has expressed dissatisfaction over what it described as lukewarm performance by the Chairman of Burutu Local Government Area, Hon.Godknows Angele.
The group made this known through its National acting spokesman, Mayor Timi Ogobiri and acting Secretary Comrade Emma Keneware in an open letter addressed to the LGA boss in Warri yesterday.
The group noted that the victory of Chairman of Burutu council was greeted with euphoria and golden felicitations due to his political exposure prior to his election as the Chairman.
They expressed disappointment that the chairman's performance was below expectations, inept, poor and nothing to write home about.
The letter addressed to the chairman reads in part; "we have lost confidence and trust in you, your performance is poorly and disappointing to Burutu people and communities. It is not in our style to drag our kinsmen to EFCC over misconducts, except you want to push us into that extreme. We will not sit down and watch Burutu funds to be wasted on personal luxuries, we have other ways of dealing with public office holders who misuse their position".
"You can recalled that we all rejoiced when you rennovated some old buildings in the council and provided power supply for the people of Burutu town during your 100 days in office but it appears that you have been misguided. If you can remember during your election you consulted IPDI, and all advises given to you appear to have been forgotten".
"It may interest you to remember that your chairmanship became possible on the goodwill of Burutu youths who agitated for a youthful chairman. His Excellency Sen.(Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa made you a chairman in an attempt to prove that he is a youth friendly governor".
"We equally applauded you when you built a substandard and terrible water system in Burutu secretariat during your 100 days in office, though we recommended further treatment on the water, surprisingly you refused to do anything about it because you can afford clean water with public fund and afford to waste the one spent on your bad water project".
"It is pertinent to note that after you celebrated your 100 days in office, you stop supplying light to the people of Burutu community".
"Burutu people languishes in a total darkness under your watch for two years but you are not worried because you can afford private power system for yourself with public money".
"We applauded when we heard that you are building councillor's lodge in Burutu town, but surprisingly the project has been turned to a conduit pipe as what has been spent on it, is enough to complete the project".
"Mr.Chairman, since your inception you did not deem it fit to tour Burutu LGA communities to have a first hand information about the suffering of your people".
" It is not a news that Burutu communities drink water from the open river where they defecate and dump all wastes, but it has never occured to you that Burutu communities need drinkable water".
"Mr.Chairman, you can not claim that you are ignorant of the fact that Burutu community health centres are dysfunctional. They have no qualify nurses, midwives and doctors. Some few we know have either one local nurse or none. Primary schools with either one or two teachers teaching all subjects in the entire six classses. Secondary schools with no science teachers. No empowerment and skill acquisition programmes for women and youths. No internal roads and electricity. Student activities not supported. No encouragement for entrepreneurs. No empowerment for our fishermen and farmers in the LGA".
"It is a pity that you are not the messiah we anticipated, as our fears and concerns are not attended to. Though ,we are not perturbed over your neglect and abandonment of Burutu People because force of gravity is real".
"This is a wake up call but what ever it means to you we stand by it. So don't handle this call with a kinsglove If you want the confidence earlier reposed on you to be restored by Burutu people"
"However, it is on record that President Buhari has started channelling federal allocation directly to the Local Governments council accounts, instead of the usual State and Local Government joint accounts".
"We are aware that about 3months now when you started receiving direct allocations from the federation account, yet you complain over paucity of fund to embarked on meaningful programmes and projects"
"Meanwhile, we were alledgely informed that, you are sharing our monthly allocations with the state, in the name of loyal boy, though, we are strongly investigating it to know the true state of the matter as to plan the next legal action to embarked upon"
"We make bold to say that you have failed Burutu people, we thought you will make the youth proud by laying a good foundation for further youthful representations in the council area but the reverse is the case".
"We want to state unequovocally that with a keen appraisal of your performance so far ,it proves that you have missed the track for failing to pursue an enduring legacy that will speak for you beyond office. Though, you may still do better if only you can wake up from your slumber and face the reality with the remaining little time".
"We hereby enjoin you to do the needful by initiating quality programmes and projects among communities in the LGA to better the lives of the people and creates enabling environment for conducive living among citizens of the LGA".
