Worried by what they described as
“an act of insubordination and unruly behaviour”, members of the Oyo State
House of Assembly on Thursday passed “a vote of no confidence” on the State
Commissioner for Education, Professor Joseph Adeniyi Olowofela.
Olowofela was invited over
complaints by food vendors under the Federal Government’s School Feeding
Programme who had been allegedly maltreated in the last few weeks.
It was alleged that allowances of
the vendors have been stopped since the last two weeks, a situation that forced
them to stay at home without, leaving school children hungry.
The lawmakers during their
plenary on Thursday told the Commissioner that their investigations revealed
that the ministry was dividing the money for the homegrown feeding programme
into two.
They consequently passed a “vote
of no confidence” on him.
But Olowofela lamented that he
was not given fair hearing to prove the allegations wrong.
He said “The issue is that the
house did not allow me to explain myself, they said I was rude. Even in the
court of law, you must give a fair hearing or when you invite somebody over
allegations like this, you allow him to react to the issue.
“And your conclusion was a vote
of no confidence. Well, there are two sides to a coin. That is the way they see
it.
“But I have the right to protect
my name and say the truth. I am saying the truth and I am standing on it.
“When issues like this occur,
there is what is called temperament of the moment. Since the beginning of this
programme, it has brought about N2.7b to Oyo State and we have never asked
anybody for one kobo.
“So, if somebody raises
allegations like this in the public domain, it has to be trashed out in the
public domain”.
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