By Adadareporters
The federal government has thrown the country into an economic crisis, Gov Godwin Obaseki of Edo State said Thursday.
Obaseki therefore called on residents of the state to be their brothers’ keepers to enable them to surmount the prevailing hardship in the country.
He spoke in Benin at a workshop to discuss the implementation of the state’s new Land Use Charge Law.
According to him, “The country is in crisis economically. We can’t continue to fold our hands and wait for a country that can’t help us. Rather, we will do all we can to help ourselves and our state.”
He said his administration had begun to take care of ‘those who can’t feed themselves’, adding that, “From our revenue, we have decided to take money from our Internally Generated Revenue to look after those that can’t feed – the poorest of the poor. We are doing our best as an administration to make things easy in Edo State for our citizens who have trust in this government.
“If we are a truly thriving country, states will survive on their own, without relying on Abuja. Whether they give us or not, we would survive as a state. We have been surviving before now. Our administration is transparent and accountable. That is why the World Bank trusts us.”
