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High Chief (Alhaji) Musa Shehu Isiwele is the national president of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) and Federal Government delegate to the ongoing National Conference where he served in the Standing Committee on Transportation. In this interview with LEADERSHIP team, he bares his mind on a united Nigeria, corruption and the way out, among others.
You caught the attention of other delegates when you commented on the inaugural speech of the president…
Yes. The president said the country must remain one which, I myself subscribes to. For over 30 years now I have been in Kano. I am more popular in Kano than where I come from which is Uromi in Edo State. Because a lot of people in Uromi don’t know me, they see me as a stranger whenever I go there. It is a place you go once in a year for may be festivals. So, the issue of dividing Nigeria, I say no because we have inter-married one another. You can’t ask me to leave Kano because I have my personal building there. You cannot ask Dangote to leave Lagos, it is impossible. So, we must remain together. Then I talked about thieves in Nigeria. No governor in this country today who has ruled his state for eight years and he is not richer than the state he ruled. A lot of them are richer than the states they governed because they buy jets and fly them over our heads and somebody steal a goat, police will charge him to court and he will be sentenced to seven years imprisonment. But those who steal trillions will be negotiating, these are my concerns. No governor ever allowed local governments to exist freely even with the face of illegal caretaker committees. The governors now change names of these contraptions; some called their own IMC, meaning interim management committee. Then you will see that what they are giving to these local governments from monthly allocations is paltry, they now put the rest in their pockets. So, I said we have two options, either the local government is autonomous or we proscribe it because if you proscribe it any governor who want to create 100 or more local governments is free to do so. It is because of the federal allocations, that is why they emasculate the local governments.
Now, these former governors are here now. They own the five-star hotels in Abuja, if you go to Malaysia, Dubai and UK, they have all these five-star hotels. But in their states where they were governors, we have somebody taking N5,000 as a salary a month. No water, no light, so what are we talking about? I said they should be executed. That was my take and everybody was laughing.
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You caught the attention of other delegates when you commented on the inaugural speech of the president…
Yes. The president said the country must remain one which, I myself subscribes to. For over 30 years now I have been in Kano. I am more popular in Kano than where I come from which is Uromi in Edo State. Because a lot of people in Uromi don’t know me, they see me as a stranger whenever I go there. It is a place you go once in a year for may be festivals. So, the issue of dividing Nigeria, I say no because we have inter-married one another. You can’t ask me to leave Kano because I have my personal building there. You cannot ask Dangote to leave Lagos, it is impossible. So, we must remain together. Then I talked about thieves in Nigeria. No governor in this country today who has ruled his state for eight years and he is not richer than the state he ruled. A lot of them are richer than the states they governed because they buy jets and fly them over our heads and somebody steal a goat, police will charge him to court and he will be sentenced to seven years imprisonment. But those who steal trillions will be negotiating, these are my concerns. No governor ever allowed local governments to exist freely even with the face of illegal caretaker committees. The governors now change names of these contraptions; some called their own IMC, meaning interim management committee. Then you will see that what they are giving to these local governments from monthly allocations is paltry, they now put the rest in their pockets. So, I said we have two options, either the local government is autonomous or we proscribe it because if you proscribe it any governor who want to create 100 or more local governments is free to do so. It is because of the federal allocations, that is why they emasculate the local governments.
Now, these former governors are here now. They own the five-star hotels in Abuja, if you go to Malaysia, Dubai and UK, they have all these five-star hotels. But in their states where they were governors, we have somebody taking N5,000 as a salary a month. No water, no light, so what are we talking about? I said they should be executed. That was my take and everybody was laughing.
Click here to read more
Source: #Leadership