Group Demands Osun Health Commissioner’s Resignation
Nov 24th, 2009 | By admin | Category: NEWSAn Osun State-based professional group, Peoples Welfare League (PWL) has again beamed its searchlight on the budgetary implementation of Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola’s administration in the last one year, returning verdict of failure on the government in the last one fiscal year.
At a press conference addressed by the national coordinator of the group, Mr. Biodun Agboola on Sunday in Osogbo, Osun State capital, the group lamented the failure of the government to fix the rot in the health sector in the state.
The group then tasked the governor to immediately sack the Commissioner for Health, Mr. Lanre Afolabi for failing to fix the health sector to the standard required, noting that he has shown that he could not deliver on promise.
According to the group: “We implore the House of Assembly to institute probe into his activities for the past seven years. This, we believe, will expose some dirty cans.”
The group disclosed that it accused the government of minimalism in 2008 for the lowest figures for revenue and expenditure it presented for appropriation act, saying that the 2008 budget has shown the Oyinlola administration has nothing to offer the state.
Agboola then submitted that the criticism of the 2008 budget was the plausible reason for the raising of the figures on the expected revenue and expenditure in 2009 without coming out with a blueprint that could be used to transform the budget proposal to an action plans.
X-raying the alleged fraud in the health sector, the group claimed that the reduction of the vote from six per cent it allocated to the sector in the previous year to five per cent in the outgoing 2009 was an unpleasant story.
Agboola maintained that the six per cent allocated previous year was a misnomer, hinting that the World Health Organization’s recommendation on the allocation to health sector stands at 15 per cent, lamenting that five per cent allocation to the health sector was demeaning and uncalled for.
Demanding to know what the government has put on ground to show the variance in the capital expenditure in 2009 to the tune of 364.16 per cent as against the 2008 capital expenditure which was at 31.14 per cent, he said an estimated amount of N67.5 billion allocated for the capital was huge enough to have gone down the drain.
The group contented that it criticized the poor allocation to the capital expenditure last year, when the recurrent expenditure was raised above the bar, arguing that the criticism might have compelled the state government to raise the funds for capital expenditure for the outgoing year, contending that there was nothing on ground to justify the allocations.
According to the group: “In the year 2008 budget, the total recurrent expenditure was far above the capital expenditure, but in the year 2009 budget, the capital expenditure was more than double the recurrent expenditure. The percentage variance of the capital expenditure between 2008 budget and 2009 budget is 364.16 per cent. The fraud in this (sic) is that as at November 2009, there is nothing reasonable on ground to justify this alarming percentage variance. Basic facilities are still lacking in almost all the sectors of the economy.
Comparing note with Oyo State health profile, the group said that Osun State health sector was in a sorry state, reiterating that the former has 30 hospitals with 119 medical doctors, while the latter has 52 hospitals with 85 medical doctors.
Agboola argued that the understaffing of medical personnel in the state medical facilities has exposed the nonchalant attitude of the government towards the development of the qualitative health programme in the state.
Rubbishing the 2009 budget implementation wholesale, the group demanded to know what informed the balanced budget the state Commissioner for Finance, Elder Moses Adetoyese Ojo christened the budget when nothing was on ground to show for the previous budgetary allocations.
The group then charged the state government to declare a state of emergency in the health sector, saying that the patients were paying for everything for the treatment in the hospitals in the state, ranging from hand glove to the exercise book for registration and medical record.
“PWL is calling on the present government in Osun State to accept failure in this important sector and immediately declare a state of emergency in the health sector”, said Agboola.
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The son of “come and eat minister”, Chief S. M. Afolabi is just a figure head in the ministry of health. What he knows best to do are smoking and ‘gbomoge-sun-ism”. I do not blame the guy. He was hand picked to compensate his father for the role he played in rigging out Chief Bisi Akande out of office. I pity the chief because he did not live long to enjoy his ill-gotten money from 1. the national ID card project 2. PDP candidate selection lobbing 3. state and federal government treasury loots 4. thank you Mr godfather among others. His fellow smarter PDP guys that he himself nominated, trained and supported were responsible for his death. What an irony! He left no good legacy. Nothing good to remember him for. The misgoverned governor of the state is representing the conservative and retrogressive minds in Yoruba land. They will soon fall and their remembrance will perish with them.
what the hell is the thing that is working in this state.soon things will go back to normalcy insha allah
Gentlemen and ladies, what did you expect from a mediocre. They don’t care about the people in their environment, Olorun yoo da fun gbogbo won.
We all forget history so soon. What are you expecting from the son of a man could not execute National ID card project, we should all know that, like father like son. Nothing good can come from the family.
No one wil go unpunishment n may God countiune guide Aregbe
Like father like son.It’s all Nigerian known what kill his father.There are today’s enjoyment will lead them to prison tomorrow like their master MR. BODE GORGE.