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WHY
SHOULD THIS BE? Why should this woe befall Kwara Express? While his predecessor increased the corporation’s vehicles by fifteen in the first year of his administration, now half of its vehicles and equipment were grounded in just one year of Governor Bukola’s administration. Why not borrow a leaf of managerial ingenuity of the last administration, the ingenuity that made the corporation more viable during the last tenure instead of throwing 150 workers into labour market and destroying the legacies of the past. Kwarans should not be surprise if grounding vehicles and sacking of workers in Kwara Express is just to pave way for the ruling family to float their family transport Corporation. In the first week of June, the Belgian Ambassador to Nigeria paid Governor Saraki a courtesy visit and promised him eighty vehicles to compliment government efforts. He was said to be impressed by the administration’s back-to-farm and clean-and-green programmes. While the former is a charade and deceit of the highest order, the later is not Bukola’s brain child after all. What purpose the 80 ‘Belgian’ vehicles supposed to serve when those inherited in Kwara Express were preparing for their ultimate extinction? Will the 80 ‘Belgian’ vehicles be in the fleet of ‘Saraki Tranport Corporation’, which will probably replace the dying state, owned Kwara Express. Governor Saraki, Kwara Express survived without Government subvention before you came onboard. It constitutes no burden to your purse, leave it alone and let it lives. It serves dual purposes for Kwarans; it is an employer of labour and offer cheap services to the people. ‘Saraki Transport Corporation’ can still operate without Kwara Express folding up. This should not be a surprise; Bukola has never done anything legendary. Once he serves as special assistant on budgetary matters to Mr. President, Olusegun Obasanjo, he was sent off barely one year. He managed their family bank as executive vice chairperson into liquidation and he did not have a successful medical career, his primary constituency. When somebody with a woeful career is en-trusted with the governance of a state, then a better fairing should not be expected. Increased in number of unemployed is an increase in poverty which is the twin sister of ignorance; the two principal instrument of subjugation and manipulation of masses that Saraki maximally exploited in Kwara to maintain his hold in the state.
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Societe Generale Bank (SGBN). While SGBN was sent off from the clearinghouse due to financial fraud and financial recklessness, which culminated into its inability to recapitalize? On the other hand, Kwara Express would soon be off road due to managerial ineptitude, lack of maintenance, irregularity in salaries and insatiable money-thirst of the ruling family. 
