OPINION: The Rejuvenated Rush Hour in Ilorin. By Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku

Date: 2019-09-27

When schools resumed this September, it was natural for traffic to build up in the early morning because of students boarding commercial buses and cabs and parents driving their children to get to school. I felt it was always the case but it appears there is more to the rush hour than just students. It appears the new regime in the state has read the riot act on truant civil servants as well as latecomers. They don't do much in the office though but they earn their pay and so must report in the office to be counted.

The other day, in his characteristic manner, the Governor literally sneaked into the State Secretariat before 8am and it was like over 60% of the staff had not resumed for work and that included Permanent Secretaries and top civil servants. Since that day, the rules of engagement changed.

Now, down to the Local Governments - these are the people who complain of being owned salaries or not being paid on time. Now they are being paid. This month of September, the state civil servants, local governments and SUBEB teachers were all paid between 23rd and 26th of this month. This is unprecedented in recent history of Kwara. So, last Monday, a funny drama happened in my house. I was in the bathroom when my wife bade me good bye to work. I thought I didn't hear well. I can't remember when last she left home before me. I even offered to drop her at work but she said she would be late. Late kee, I wondered? That has long been a lost word in the dictionary of civil servants. So, if you want to get to work on time now and you don't want to be stuck in traffic, take off by 7am or else the gridlock that would be caused by civil servants rushing to be at their desks as a result of the new riot act read by our hardworking no nonsense Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq would just pin you down.

A friend told me that his wife who is also a teacher had to abandon her car and she now uses the O'pay app to call Okada airline to fly her to work from Eiyenkorin to Taiwo road where she works. This is what change is all about.

Over the period of 16 years of waste in Kwara, our political leaders developed what I can call "leadership fatigue". They were tired of leading but they just didn't want to let go of leadership. The only thing they felt mattered was winning elections. The last Governor hardly knew it was raining outside as he locked himself up in Government House. It never mattered who turned up for work, who was late, who wasn't, whether traffic was bad or good, whether a contractor was doing a good job or not etc. Thank God Kwarans had to say Enough is Enough - Otoge.

Let's celebrate a new Kwara, let's celebrate the "Rejuvenated Rush Hour".

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Oba Abdulraheem     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Malete     Toyin Saraki     2023 Elections     Saba Jibril     Congress For National Consensus     Sunday Otokiti     Bahago     Mutawalle     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Bisi Oyeleke     Kwara State Television     Durosinlohun Atiku     Oyun     Yahaya Muhammad     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Local Government     Niyi Osundare     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     Kassim Babamale     Maryam Nurudeen     Trader Moni     S.O. Opowoye     Adamu Atta     Magaji Erubu     Kwabes     Bilikisu Gambari     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Khairat Gwadabe     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Neo Mundo Ltd     Kayode Laro     IDPU     Saidu Kawu     Okala Baba     Quareeb     Roheemat Hammed     Osi     Sheikh Alimi     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Ilorin South Constituency     New Model Police Station     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Sam Onile     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Third Estate     Admiralty Villa     Suleiman Abubakar     Maryam Ado Bayero     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Communication Network Support Services     Aremu Odolaye     Olosi Of Osi     Dagbalodo     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Riskat Opakunle     YAKOOYO     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Elesie Of Esie     Oro Grammar School     Dan Masanin     Eleja     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     TVC Female National Debate     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Elections     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Ayedun     Baba Issa     Oloje     Ilorin Central Mosque    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Mohammed Halidu     Yakubu Gobir     Saliu Alamoyo     2023 Elections     Kwara NIPR     Adesoye College     Abubakar Atiku     GANZY     Mufutau Olatinwo     Rotimi Oyedepo     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Air Peace     Kumbi Titiloye     Ojuekun Sarumi     Okala Baba     Ogbondoroko     Offa Poly     Samuel Adedoyin     Sunday Otokiti     Simeon Ajibola     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Funmi Salau     Olatunji Ibrahim     Saad Belgore     Raimi Iyanda     Women Radio     NAWOJ     Saba Jibril     Saad Omo\'ya     Dagbalodo     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Alaro     Adijat Adebiyi     Alikinla     Demola Banu     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Abubakar Lah     Kwara State Sports Commission     Yusuf Mubarak     Haleeman Salman     Halimah Perogi     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     Mohammed Abduraheem     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Bamikole Omishore     Ishaq Salman     Ibrahim Mashood     Trader Moni     Nnazua     Tanke Road     Bankole Omisore     Wahab Isa     Nigerian Correctional Service     Ibrahim Akaje     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Orisa Bridge     Ali Ahmad     KW-GIS     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Radio Kwara     Olushola Saraki     Alimi     Suleiman Ajadi     Muhammadu Buhari     TESCOM 2025     Tope Daramola     Kabir Shagaya     Turaki     Folorunsho Alao     Photo News     Abdulhakeem Amao     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Code Of Conduct     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Saudat Abdulbaqi