Obaseki vows to dam looters from Edo treasury

The Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has mentioned politics should all the time be about bettering the folks’s lives, noting that his authorities performs a politics centred on serving the folks and placing the State on the trail of accelerated development and prosperity.

Obaseki reassured that his authorities wouldn’t share or give treasury looters entry to Edo folks’s cash however would proceed to channel the state’s sources to develop the state and higher the folks’s lives.

The governor spoke at a homecoming reception in honour of the victorious Edo Queens Football Club who’ve lately topped the 2023/2024 Nigeria Women Football League Super Six Champions in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, clinching a ticket to characterize Nigeria on the continental stage of the CAF Women Champions League.

The occasion was held on the Government House, in Benin City, the Edo State capital on Friday.

The governor mentioned when his administration got here into workplace in 2016, there was no hope within the State as each youth was searching for the slightest alternative to journey out of the Country, noting that at this time his authorities has reversed the pattern and introduced again hope into the State as each youth now desires to remain again to contribute to the event of the State.

Obaseki acknowledged, “I don’t trouble when folks speak about issues they don’t know. We haven’t any regrets; the cash they refused to make use of for the Edo folks is the cash we’ve got circled and used for our folks.

“In the final eight years, we’ve got fought totally different battles, overcome all of them, and can all the time come out victorious. No matter what they do, we are going to proceed to make use of Edo cash for Edo folks.

“We have money in Edo State but when we steal the money, there will be no money to take care of Edo people. Governance is about using the money to develop the State and its people.”

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