The Kwara State Chapter of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) yesterday berated Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed for poor performance even as it challenged him to account for close to N50 billion allocation accrued to the state in the last one year. 

The party in a document signed by its state Chairman, Mr. Kayode Olawepo and made available to our correspondent stated that Ahmed' administration has failed to provid portable water to the people of the state; no free education as  claimed by the government while over 2.3 million of the state could not adequately receive health care service with just 100 of medical doctors. 

It observed that the state government was claiming that it had  completed "a total of 600 kilometres of roads  while another 350.80 kilometres of rural and feeder roads have also been awarded for rehabilitation and construction by the state Government." 

The party said "the fact is that in both North and South senatorial districts of Kwara State, we are yet to witness construction of any new road. 

"What is being shared in Kwara State is not prosperity but poverty, pains, hardship and hopelessness. If this government deserves to be praised for anything, it is for its ability to make false claims and celebrate corruption. In fact, Kwarans are embarrassed at the shamelessness of our government which, for want of any verifiable achievements, in rolling out the drums for mere unveiling of a new logo, which, together with the empty noisemaking of May 29, cost Kwara people a whopping N31m. Kwara definitely cannot continue like this, 45 years after it became a state. Our people deserve a better deal! 

Commenting on the utilization of federal allocation, the party said " for the past one year, therefore, the government of Kwara State should account for over N50b that accrued to it in the form of statutory allocation, VAT and other grants. This is beside the loans that are already accumulating, with its accompanying dangers for the future of the state. All objective analysis of achievements of government should be based on available resources. The Ahmed's administration has been quiet on this. 

"The government's claim on free education is false as parents still pay for their pupils in public schools. Such money ranges from N600 and above. The government calls this money PTA contribution, part of which is retained in the school for maintenance and part goes to the Ministry of Education for only God knows what. While the Ekiti State Government gave laptop computers to teachers and students of public secondary schools under their own free education policy, the government of Kwara State gives "10 free note books per session to senior secondary school students to ease economic burden of educating students on parents and guardians." 

" In fact apart from the supply of 33,000 solar-powered laptops to public schools, school bags are given to students in Ekiti State. In Osun State, students are supplied with uniforms free. But in Kwara State, parents run the schools but government gives 10 exercise books to each students. That indeed is their  free education. 

"While the Ekiti state gtovernment supplied brail computers and other learning equipments to the physically-challenged schools, government of Kwara State beats its chest for renovating some structures in its school for the physically challenged."