Activists raise the alarm over Osun judge’s safety

The Civil Societies’ Coalition for Emancipation of Osun state has raised the alarm over the safety of Justice Folahanmi Oloyede following her petition to the House of Assembly asking the lawmakers to impeach Governor Rauf Aregbesola.

The group raised the alarm in a statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Friday by Ebenezer Oladapo.

The CSCE said the judge did nothing wrong by speaking the mind of the people of the state who they said had been subjected to hardship through the alleged financial recklessness of the governor.

The statement partly read, “There is clandestine move by the state government to intimidate and persecute Justice Oloyede Olamide Folahanmi for daring to speak out in the face of the tyranny that characterised the rule of Mr. Rauf Aregbesola.”

The group urged all well meaning citizens of Osun state home and abroad as well as all God-fearing people all over the world to prevail on the state lawmakers to carry out its constitutional duties as is being demanded by the people of Osun state through Oloyede’s petition.

Oladapo said while the public servants and other people of the state were starving, political appointees were living in opulence, saying they were buying every available property and building almost everywhere in the state.

This, he said, was contrary to the ridicule workers were subjected to, as they were being evicted by their landlords for their inability to pay their rents.

The statement read further, “We noted with great pain the goings on in Osun state in recent times vis-à-vis the inability of the government to meet its obligations to the citizens and the untold hardship being experienced by the people which has led to increase in crimes and death of many people, most especially civil servants and pensioners.

“Also, there is a debt burden rumoured to be in the region of five hundred billion naira but which true sum has not been disclosed by Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who claimed to have borrowed the monies for infrastructural development.

“Deplorable and un-motorable intra-city and inter-city roads. Government hospitals grossly understaffed and without drugs and consumable. A promised cargo airport at Iddo-Osun which can only be described as a heap of sand despite the huge amount said to have been expended on it, several uncompleted, albeit unnecessary, road and environmental beautification projects.”

(Punch)