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Kwara explains bloated recurrent expenditure
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African Examiner
Saturday, Jan 12, 2013
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The Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has attributed the
slanting of the 2013 fiscal budget in favour of recurrent expenditure
to the need to promote and sustain workers’ welfare since the
government remains the major employer of labour.

Governor Ahmed who gave this explanation during the January
monthly interactive session with the press and members of the
public, “The Governor Explains”, said it was unfortunate that
governments at all levels in the country have, over the years,
allowed the civil service to grow at the expense of the other sectors
of the economy. This, the governor explains, has led to the
deployment of “substantial part of the budgets, which in an ideal
situation should have been used to drive capital expenditure, to
salaries and emoluments".

According to Dr. Ahmed, "Kwara State is largely a civil service
driven state and until we are able to attract massive private sector
investments into the state, as government is currently doing, we
may have no other option but maintain the current unfortunate
situation".

The governor who dismissed insinuation that development is being
concentrated in certain section of the state, pledged the support of
state government to interested investors from within and outside the
state. "We are ready to assist local investors, just as our doors are
opened to investors outside the state", the governor promised. "Our
primary objective is to explore all possible and positive avenues to
create more jobs and wealth for our teaming youth. This is an oath
we have sworn to since inception and shall not derail or be
derailed", he emphasised.

Speaking on student scholarship, the governor decried a situation
where very few of the deserving students across the country benefit
from the current bursary and promised that his administration
intends to introduce a merit driven Scholarship Scheme for students
in tertiary institutions to create a level playing ground for them
instead of relying on bursary, which does not benefit all  students.

The Governor noted that the administration places high premium on
education, saying that appropriate mechanism has been put in
place to ensure adequate infrastructure in all the state owned
tertiary institutions in order to create condusive learning
environment.

Abdulwahab Oba
Chief Press Secretary
to the Kwara State Governor
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