RATING OSHIOMHOLE's GOVERNMENT PART ONE. EDO STATE GOVT`S SUCCESSES ?

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By PauLy Okpere

Many people think of critiques of this government as "bad belle" and enemies of good things, but let us examine the Oshiomhole government of Edo state and how much impact it has made to remedy the problems they claimed was heaped down by the PDP.
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1. REVENUE GENERATION: Edo state has got many avenues to revenues viz; Federal allocations, shares from excess crude account, Sure-P programme, Ecological funds, Flood victims relief funds, internally generated revenue(IGR) which covers ticketing, income tax, value added tax, etc,

QUESTION: Can the state government publish accurate figures of the exact amount it has received in the last 6 years since it took office? or can any one of the spokes channels of the government help us know this staggering figures in broken down syntax.

2. EXPENDITURES OF GOVERNMENT: As a trained economist myself, I know that over 84% of government dealings are procurement guided by appropriation and budgeting. Thus the question;

QUESTION: How much of the income received had been expended and on what project? We should match the recurrent expenditure and capital expenditure using the overall budget of the 6years period under review.

3. EDUCATION: Education being one of the most important function of government in modern democracies has been impacted by provisions of red roofs, sliding windows, ceiling fans, ceramic tiled floors etc, but what about the other core features like desks, teachers and teaching materials?

QUESTION: Rating the present situation of education în Edo state, are we satisfied with the level of achievement bearing in mind that there are counterpart funding availability from the federal government?

Let's discuss these three items for now, more to follow as we progress.

To be continued.

Spain Admits Firing Rubber Bullets at Migrants Swimming to Enclave.

By Fiona Govan, Madrid

1:58PM GMT 14 Feb 2014

Row breaks out after Spain admits it fired rubber bullets into the sea as migrants attempted to swim into Spanish territory from Morocco

Spain’s government has admitted firing rubber bullets at migrants as they attempted to swim from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta during an incident last week in which at least 12 people are thought to have drowned.

The admission from Jorge Fernandez Diaz, the Interior Minister of Spain to parliament on Thursday, contradicts earlier statements by Spain’s Civil Guard who insisted that no bullets had been fired and came after complaints by human rights organizations.

Video footage shows a group of African migrants attempting to swim round a man-made breakwater that separates Moroccan and Spanish waters to reach Ceuta. A group of more than 200 gathered to make the attempt in the first hours of daylight on February 6.

The footage, captured on the mobile phone of someone on shore shows a group of migrants wading to the beach where officers from the Civil Guard are waiting. A series of loud bangs can be heard as officers fire into the water.

The death toll officially reached 12 on Thursday after authorities discovered another washed up body but as many as 15 people are thought to have died in the attempt.