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Federal Lawmaker Appoints 221 Aides,Empower Constituents In Ondo

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Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo

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Member of the House of Representatives representing Akoko North East/North West Federal Constituency, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has announced the appointment of 220 persons as Special Advisers, Special Assistants and Personal Assistants. 

The announcement was contained in a release made available by his Special Adviser on New Media, Alao Babatunde.

According to him, the appointment cuts across all the 300 units and 23 wards of the Constituency. 

Tunji-Ojo who is the Chairman, House Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) also appointed persons from the mandate area. 

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While congratulating the appointees, he urged them to continue to commit themselves to delivering exemplary governance to the people. He added that the appointments were in addition to the appointments earlier announced.

The lawmaker states, “In my avowed commitment to better serve the good people of Akoko North East/North West Federal Constituency as well as the mandate area, I am pleased to announce the appointment of the under listed.

“The appointments which is an addition to the appointments earlier announced is in consideration of their commitment and dedication to adding value to the Constituency and the mandate area.

“These appointments take immediate effect.

“I congratulate and urge them to continue to commit themselves to delivering exemplary governance to our dear people.

“Once again, congratulations!”

SEE FULL LIST:

1. Hon. Saliu Adeyemi – Chief of Staff

2. Hon. Kehinde Obanla — Special Adviser on Youth (Akoko North West)

3. Chief (Mrs) Atinuke Akadri — Special Adviser, Women Affairs

4. Hon. Mutiu Olawale — Special Adviser on empowerment and Capacity Building 

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5. Mr Musibau Ekunusi — Special Adviser on Youth (Akoko North East)

6. Hon. Tiamiyu Fatai A. Atere — Special Adviser on Political Affairs

7. Mr. Amubieya Adeniyi — Special Adviser on Stakeholders Management

8. Hon. Akinwumi Sowore — Special Adviser on Niger Delta Affairs

9. Fasesin Adewole — Special Assistant on Mobilisation

10. Hon. Iwajomo Desmond — Special Assistant on Niger Delta Affairs

11. Miracle Adejoro — Special Assistant on Public Private Partnership 

11 Adamu Rafiu — Special Assistant (SA)

12 Hon. Kolade Jamiu SA

13 Alhaji Aminu Tairu SA

14 Gbenga Adams SA

15 Ogidan Aderemi SA

16 Adeleye Idowu SA

17 Hon. (Chief) Ojo Malomo SA

18 Hon. Raphael Omishola SA

19 Alhaji Jimoh Jamiu SA

20 Ipinsagba Adedayo SA

21 Ipinloju Bisiyi SA

22 Hon. Lati Balogun SA

23 Adeyemo Surajudeen SA

24 Mr. Ilesanmi SA

25 Omotunwase Rasaq SA

26 Olukoju Sina PA

27 Ogunkolade Amos PA

28 Adebisi Olusegun SA

29 Ishola Tajudeen SA

30 Mufutau Lawal SA

31 Saliu Mumuni Olanrewaju SA

32 Lawal Tajudeen SA

33 Mustapha Salisu SA

34 Sule Emmanuel SA

35 Hon. Adeniyi John SA

36 Adegboyega Olanrewaju Rasak SA

37 Olaniyan Tope Stephen SA

38 Victoria Balogun SA

39 Fajorin Ebenezer SA

40 Olu Alademomi SA

41 Ajetomobi Tunji SA

42 Umeru Teslim SA

43 Omotola Bamidele SA

44 Ologundudu Rotimi SA

45 Taiwo Dele SA

46 Adewale Adekunle SA

47 Alhaja Olorunntoba Ramota SA

48 Lawal Tosin SA

49 Rabiu Sulieman Olayemi SA

50 Osakiya John Taiwo SA

51 Iwalefun Sunday Oluwole SA

52 Ojo Babatunde Aderogba SA

53 Oladokun Felix SA

54 Omobuwa Olusola Johnbosco SA

55 Olabode Juwon — Personal Assistant (PA)

56 Mohammed Olanrewaju PA

57 Kolawole Sunday PA

58 Adebayo Olatubosun PA

59 Samuel Omowaye PA

60 Babalola Temidayo PA

61 Mayegun Iyabo PA

62 Abimbola Yemisi PA

63 Ademati Yetunde PA

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64 Yusuf Yakubu PA

65 Mrs Lutifat Raman PA

66 Amodu Ibrahim Babatunde PA

67 Chief Owaseke PA

68 Famuyiwa Lateef PA

69 Dauda Folorunsho PA

70 Sola Ogundare PA

71 Johnson Iyabo PA

72 Ademoyegun Taiwo PA

73 Thomas Idowu PA

74 Alhaji Sakariyu PA

75 Adewale Febisola PA

76 Akerele Emmanuel PA

77 Abass Sunmonu PA

78 Taye Arounmolase PA

79 Ajulo Joshua PA

80 Adebayo Olusola Johnson PA

81 Balogun Mufutau Ayodeji PA

82 Kabiru Saleh PA

83 Akande Gbenga PA

84 Isa Ganiyu PA

85 Adebisi Kudirat PA

86 Abe Sunday Oluwasegun PA

87 Rabihu Taofeeq PA

88 Saka Sola PA

89 Olowojolu Talfeek PA

90 Omojola Saleem PA

91 Adenola Tajudeen PA

92 Ogundayi Ayodeji PA

93 Aletile Wosilat PA

94 Ibrahim Abdulkareem PA

95 Umoru Tijani PA

96 Christianah Balogun PA

97 Adeniyi Olayinka PA

98 Omoniyi Kayode PA

99 Isimijola Christianah PA

100 Jamiyu Alako PA

101 Ademati Yetunde PA

102 Arodudu Oyewole PA

103 Mr Babatunde Ayodeji PA

104 Ogundayi Ayodeji PA

105 Oyemitan Abubakar PA

106 Alao Taye PA

107 Giwa Fatai PA

108 Yisa Idowu PA

109 Adamu Saidi Boyede PA

110 Akadri Fatai PA

111 Olorigbo Omotayo PA

112 Kutelu Damilola PA

113 Yemi Oloruntuyi PA

114 Salahudeen Lukman PA

115 Oloyede Liadi PA

116 Teslim Bakare PA

117 Ojo Tolorunju PA

118 Asagunla Toyin PA

119 Olana Ganiyu PA

120 Aliu Tajudeen PA

121 Omotola Olaniran PA

122 Bobola Peter PA

123 Mr Sulaiman Alabi PA

124 Yusuf Olayemi PA

125 Adeniyi David PA

126 Johnson Oluwole PA

127 Tanimola Samuel PA

128 Giwa Kayode PA

129 Balogun Bodunde PA

130 Ajele Friday PA

131 Arishekola Kayode PA

132 Dada Clement PA

133 Hassan Kabiru PA

134 Adeyanju Roland PA

135 Adamson PA

136 Momoh Mudashir PA

137 Isiaka Salisu PA

138 Momodu Muriyu PA

139 Orugbemi Olubunmi PA

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140 Egbeola Oni PA

141 Adejoro Jelili PA

142 Alabi Kemi PA

143 Ipinloju Tajudeen PA

144 Adesina Raman PA

145 Kalesanmi Israel PA

146 Osho Ezekiel PA

147 Tunde Oladoyinbo PA

148 Oladapo Oluwadare PA

149 Dauda Lateef PA

150 Lateef Jimoh PA

151 Alhaji Joki Lasisi PA

152 Wale Ogunlade PA

153 Kehinde Ibitoye SA

154 Yusuf Tairu PA

155 Fatomoye Kehinde PA

156 Semiu Oluwarotimi PA

157 Ipinmoroti Sunday PA

158 Adebayo Emmanuel PA

159 Olatunde Olukemi PA

160 Adenola Adeniyi PA

161 Egbeyemi Femi PA

162 Ogundana Felix Olorundare PA

163 Olotu Oluwole PA

164 Ogunjobi Alabi PA

165 Seidu Fatai PA

166 S.S Oladele PA

167 Omojola Babatunde PA

168 Olotu Durojaiye PA

169 Mrs E. B Bello PA

170 Arogundade Femi PA

171 Adojutelegan Suyi PA

172 Akande Isaiah Monday PA

173 Adewumi Ademola PA

174 Yakubu Surajudeen PA

175 Aguda Abayomi PA

176 Ayeni Remilekun PA

177 Basiru Adekile PA

178 Wasiu Ogunmodede PA

179 Babalola Temidayo Christopher PA

*PERSONAL ASSISTANTS ON MOBILISATION* 

180 Ezekiel Ajiboye

181 Ajiboye Muyideen

182 Ogunbodede Olawale

183 Ezekiel Gboyega

184 Salami Tairu

185 Makusota Muritala

186 Ode Olatunde

187 Abu Momoh

188 Azees Mayowa

189 Alo Sunkanmi

190 Adewale Abiola

191 Jide Aduloju

192 Musa Jamiyu

193 Abimbola Biola

194 Sikiru Wahidi

195 Sanusi Sarafa

196 Suliaman Lateef

197 Eruobodo Dada

198 Atiku Banji

199 Momoh Taye

200 Oladapo Oluwadare Idowu

201 Odunayo Adeyeba

202 Lateef Jimoh 

203 Olajide Olusegun

204 Bobade Gboyega

206 Owolabi Isiek

207 Asaolu Sunday

208 Muhammed Lateef

209 Koyenikan Gbenga

210 Akinyemi Adeleye

211 Kayode Ajayi

212 Taiwo Ojo

213 Emmanuel Moses

214 Owoseni Busayo

215 Arogunyo Idowu John

216 Balogun Dele

217 Sunday Alabi

218 Abegunde Olarinde

219 Ojo Olasehinde

220 Ayeta Sunday

221.Saliu Wasiu Abiodun

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*NIGERIA* : _A country where corruption makes rulers deaf, dump and blind_ _Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid off. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective._ *_Pratibha Patil_* . The discourse on corruption in Nigeria remains an endless talk-shop simply because both leadership and followers are deeply enmeshed in the scourge. Nigeria’s corruption has become a virus that is ravaging the entire landscape to the extent that it would take God’s intervention to recover the country from its stranglehold. The author quoted above, would suggest that corruption is an African issue. I however disagree. The “pandemic” is not restricted to Nigeria or Africa alone. Western societies are not exempted. I dare say that the Western nations, more than any other, are culpable in the performance, though at the extra territorial level. While jealously guarding their own treasures and appropriating resources for their own people, they navigated the length and breadth of the globe, exploiting other countries, for selfish interest. They corruptly enriched their countries, with the wealth, toll and blood of others. African slaves build their cities while its resources served their economies. It would take eternity to discuss corruption, but for a quick grasp of the phenomenon, Nigeria as a nation would serve the purpose of my attempt to discuss this nagging social concern. There is phenomenal corruption in our country simply because there is a profound failure of leadership generally and in the fight against corruption in particular. If the truth is to be told, with very few exceptions, our crop of leaders is essentially self-serving and visionless. Some even rank as despots, and not leaders in the true sense of the word. They lack(ed) vision, focus, selflessness and are indulgent on a large scale. Without fear of contradiction, our leaders are unimaginably corrupt; they are greedy; they are vindictive; they are reckless and, in many fundamental respects, senseless. Virtually whoever has access to power abuses it. The exceptions are very few indeed. There is perhaps no other country in the world where power corrupts and absolute power corrupts as absolutely as in Nigeria. Our indisputable consistent dismal ranking on the global corruption index testifies to the societal decadence and poverty of leadership that bestrides the country, yet we gloat over this shameful misnomer, wear its badge with pride and carry on like Nero of Rome. That the so-called African leader and hope of the black man is now donning the crown of corruption and poverty headquarters of the world, without qualms, in incomprehensible. Like a deaf and blind man, he hears nothing, he sees nothing. Our leaders hear nothing, they see nothing. Nothing moves them. What a shame! While yet adorning their corruption epaulet, those who plunged the country into the ditch are moving around with full chest, parading credentials of ‘sainthood’ and superiority. Yet our society keeps applauding them as people with morals and means. Each opportunity they had in providing leadership became personalised. Citizens are compelled to embrace their warped ideology. They are subjected to mental and material poverty and reoriented to believe that except one identifies with the loyalist camp, chances of enjoying any benefit from the state, even one’s survival, is slim. The promoters of that bastardization are walking the streets unchallenged of their evil deeds. This same attitude was what brought our country to its knees. Its assets are decimated, its infrastructure lying in runs. Our education system has been destroyed, health facilities are in comatose, shipping lines have become moribund, in short, Nigeria has been destroyed. Look at what happened in this country in the 1970s! Where are all the River Basins? Where are the industries? Where are the motor companies? Volkswagen of Nigeria, so many of them? These industries were all destroyed between 1986 and early 1990’s. At that time, if you were in their good book, they would likely issue you license to establish a bank. You can turn the bank into whatever you like. If you were favoured, you could get a license for oil block or whatever catches your fancy. At some point, the government was simply personalised. I say this on good authority. Some Nigerians who were in the security services in the country, would attest to these facts. The country’s security agencies were turned into laboratory of sorts to test all kinds of fantasies. In all honesty, the meaning of corruption goes well beyond the meaning normally adduced to it in Nigerian public discourse. For, corruption means much more than public officers taking bribes and gratification, committing fraud and stealing funds and diverting resources, entrusted to their care. Corruption, in my view, means a deliberate violation, for gainful ends, of standards of conduct legally, professionally, or even ethically, established, in private and public affairs. These gains may be in cash or in kind or, it may even be psychological or political but they derive from the violation of the integrity of an entity and involve the subversion of its quality and capacity, going by the definition of the late erudite scholar Bala Yusuf Usman in one of his submissions on corruption. Corruption is one of the major problems which Nigeria has to tackle and overcome if it is to make any significant and sustainable progress in 21st century. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo instituted two anti-graft agencies within a space of three years (ICPC September 2000 and EFCC in 2003). Can we say they have been able to stem corruption? Rather it's on the increase. Instead of looking inward to see the underlying factors that had inhibited efforts to curtail the scourge, the campaign now is targeted at eradicating or muzzling the mouth of the oxen that “threaded out the corn.” The kingpins of corruption are resolute to emasculate the campaign. It must not be allowed to continue. It must be silenced so business can continue as usual. The main reason for the failure of Buhari’s - military regime’s - campaign against corruption and indiscipline was the regime’s inability to deal effectively with the problem of economic and social decline inherited from the preceding regime. The regime also shot itself in the foot by trying to arrest the country’s economic and social decline by doctrinaire and anti-people policies. massive retrenchment of workers in the public service, the introduction of many new taxes, levies and fees on citizens, drastic reduction in public expenditure, especially on social welfare and agricultural subsidies, and the widespread destruction of the means of livelihood of small privately employed persons like motor mechanics, food vendors and petty traders by pulling down their makeshift sheds, kiosks and bukas in the name of urban environmental sanitation. It would be unseemly for me to particularise further but I cannot over-emphasize the importance of eradicating this epidemic that has razed our nation to the ground. Any who has not lived among us may not be able to appreciate the extent to which bribery and other corrupt practices have wrecked our nation. 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*NIGERIA* : _A country where corruption makes rulers deaf, dump and blind_ _Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid off. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective._ *_Pratibha Patil_* . The discourse on corruption in Nigeria remains an endless talk-shop simply because both leadership and followers are deeply enmeshed in the scourge. Nigeria’s corruption has become a virus that is ravaging the entire landscape to the extent that it would take God’s intervention to recover the country from its stranglehold. The author quoted above, would suggest that corruption is an African issue. I however disagree. The “pandemic” is not restricted to Nigeria or Africa alone. Western societies are not exempted. I dare say that the Western nations, more than any other, are culpable in the performance, though at the extra territorial level. While jealously guarding their own treasures and appropriating resources for their own people, they navigated the length and breadth of the globe, exploiting other countries, for selfish interest. They corruptly enriched their countries, with the wealth, toll and blood of others. African slaves build their cities while its resources served their economies. It would take eternity to discuss corruption, but for a quick grasp of the phenomenon, Nigeria as a nation would serve the purpose of my attempt to discuss this nagging social concern. There is phenomenal corruption in our country simply because there is a profound failure of leadership generally and in the fight against corruption in particular. If the truth is to be told, with very few exceptions, our crop of leaders is essentially self-serving and visionless. Some even rank as despots, and not leaders in the true sense of the word. They lack(ed) vision, focus, selflessness and are indulgent on a large scale. Without fear of contradiction, our leaders are unimaginably corrupt; they are greedy; they are vindictive; they are reckless and, in many fundamental respects, senseless. Virtually whoever has access to power abuses it. The exceptions are very few indeed. There is perhaps no other country in the world where power corrupts and absolute power corrupts as absolutely as in Nigeria. Our indisputable consistent dismal ranking on the global corruption index testifies to the societal decadence and poverty of leadership that bestrides the country, yet we gloat over this shameful misnomer, wear its badge with pride and carry on like Nero of Rome. That the so-called African leader and hope of the black man is now donning the crown of corruption and poverty headquarters of the world, without qualms, in incomprehensible. Like a deaf and blind man, he hears nothing, he sees nothing. Our leaders hear nothing, they see nothing. Nothing moves them. What a shame! While yet adorning their corruption epaulet, those who plunged the country into the ditch are moving around with full chest, parading credentials of ‘sainthood’ and superiority. Yet our society keeps applauding them as people with morals and means. Each opportunity they had in providing leadership became personalised. Citizens are compelled to embrace their warped ideology. They are subjected to mental and material poverty and reoriented to believe that except one identifies with the loyalist camp, chances of enjoying any benefit from the state, even one’s survival, is slim. The promoters of that bastardization are walking the streets unchallenged of their evil deeds. This same attitude was what brought our country to its knees. Its assets are decimated, its infrastructure lying in runs. Our education system has been destroyed, health facilities are in comatose, shipping lines have become moribund, in short, Nigeria has been destroyed. Look at what happened in this country in the 1970s! Where are all the River Basins? Where are the industries? Where are the motor companies? Volkswagen of Nigeria, so many of them? These industries were all destroyed between 1986 and early 1990’s. At that time, if you were in their good book, they would likely issue you license to establish a bank. You can turn the bank into whatever you like. If you were favoured, you could get a license for oil block or whatever catches your fancy. At some point, the government was simply personalised. I say this on good authority. Some Nigerians who were in the security services in the country, would attest to these facts. The country’s security agencies were turned into laboratory of sorts to test all kinds of fantasies. In all honesty, the meaning of corruption goes well beyond the meaning normally adduced to it in Nigerian public discourse. For, corruption means much more than public officers taking bribes and gratification, committing fraud and stealing funds and diverting resources, entrusted to their care. Corruption, in my view, means a deliberate violation, for gainful ends, of standards of conduct legally, professionally, or even ethically, established, in private and public affairs. These gains may be in cash or in kind or, it may even be psychological or political but they derive from the violation of the integrity of an entity and involve the subversion of its quality and capacity, going by the definition of the late erudite scholar Bala Yusuf Usman in one of his submissions on corruption. Corruption is one of the major problems which Nigeria has to tackle and overcome if it is to make any significant and sustainable progress in 21st century. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo instituted two anti-graft agencies within a space of three years (ICPC September 2000 and EFCC in 2003). Can we say they have been able to stem corruption? Rather it's on the increase. Instead of looking inward to see the underlying factors that had inhibited efforts to curtail the scourge, the campaign now is targeted at eradicating or muzzling the mouth of the oxen that “threaded out the corn.” The kingpins of corruption are resolute to emasculate the campaign. It must not be allowed to continue. It must be silenced so business can continue as usual. The main reason for the failure of Buhari’s - military regime’s - campaign against corruption and indiscipline was the regime’s inability to deal effectively with the problem of economic and social decline inherited from the preceding regime. The regime also shot itself in the foot by trying to arrest the country’s economic and social decline by doctrinaire and anti-people policies. massive retrenchment of workers in the public service, the introduction of many new taxes, levies and fees on citizens, drastic reduction in public expenditure, especially on social welfare and agricultural subsidies, and the widespread destruction of the means of livelihood of small privately employed persons like motor mechanics, food vendors and petty traders by pulling down their makeshift sheds, kiosks and bukas in the name of urban environmental sanitation. It would be unseemly for me to particularise further but I cannot over-emphasize the importance of eradicating this epidemic that has razed our nation to the ground. Any who has not lived among us may not be able to appreciate the extent to which bribery and other corrupt practices have wrecked our nation. Those who occupy positions of power operate in exclusion of the ideals of disinterested service. Much of the attraction of a post lies in the opportunities it offers for extortion of one form or another. Unless the commission fully realizes the gravity of this problem and tackle it with courage, any recommendations for marginal reform are bound to fall flat - dead on arrival. It is most troubling to see that only a handful of Nigerians especially public officials are people of integrity and honesty. Most educated Nigerians are citizens of two publics in the same society. On one hand, they belong to a civic public from which they gain materially but to which they give only grudgingly. On the other hand, they belong to a primordial public from which they derive little or no material benefits but to which they are expected to give generously and do give materially. To make matters more complicated, their relationship to the primordial public is moral, while that to the civic public is amoral. The dialectical tensions and confrontations between these two publics constitute the uniqueness of modern African politics” It is my conviction, as an ardent believer in possibilities, that Nigeria is not beyond change. Nigeria can change today if she discovers leaders who have the will, the ability and the vision to steer her in the right direction. I wholeheartedly agree with a school of thought that says “corruption in Nigeria has passed the alarming and entered the fatal stage and Nigeria will die if we keep pretending that she is only slightly indisposed”. Although many Nigerians may tend to share this view, the incurable optimist I am about the future of this country, make me to conclude that our tomorrow will be alright if we all submit to moral discipline in all its facets. Lanre Ogundipe Former President Nigeria and African Union of Journalists (NUJ/AUJ) writes from Abuja.

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