Afrigather Osun-based rights group, The Osun Masterminds on Sunday continued its disagreement with the state governor’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed on the suitable mode that ought to be adopted for the distribution of baggage of fertilizer acquired from the Federal Authorities by the state.
The group’s Government Director, Prof. Wasiu Oyedokun-Alli, whereas studying the group’s month-to-month State of Osun handle for June, disclosed that 11 truckloads of fertilizer had been acquired by the state.
Oyedokun-Alli, subsequently suggested the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, to make sure equity within the distribution of the objects.
However Rasheed whereas responding stated the fertilizer was acquired solely final Friday, including that the Ministry in cost had introduced the receipt of the merchandise to the general public.
“How do you begin sharing fertilizers which are nonetheless arriving within the state? What higher solution to be clear than the assertion from the state authorities on arrivals together with the variety of vehicles?
“We notice that the group is being mischievous and partisan as ordinary because it nonetheless finds it onerous to desert its outdated roots as an appendage of the opposition in the course of the pre-2022 election,” Rasheed stated in his response.
Displeased by the assertion, Oyedokun-Alli, in an announcement on Sunday, whereas accusing Rasheed of all the time branding all critics of the governor as opposition component, additional stated “He unleashed the identical sample on us in his response to our June 2024 State of the State handle, whereby we suggested the Adeleke authorities to make sure equity, transparency, and sincerity within the distribution of fertilizers just lately disbursed to the States.
“We’re conscious that the fertilizers acquired represent simply the primary batch of the overall anticipated.
“We insist, nonetheless, that the distribution, whether or not of this primary batch, or your complete batch, have to be with equity, transparency, and sincerity. There have to be no political colouration to the distribution and solely true farmers, particularly in rural communities, should profit.”
