By Mson Fachir
It is now crystal clear to Benue people that they voted in the wrong man to be their governor at this time. The man called Hyacinth Alia is a fake man. Alia lies and deceives people to get advantage in all aspects of life. Even in the church, he was a fake priest.
Imagine the monumental fraud that is being reported at the Benue State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) under Grace Adagba, the Chairman. Recently, the SUBEB Chairman announced that had taken Benue students to an “International debate competition in Jakarta, Indonesia. Governor Alia approved and released more than N200 million for the trip.
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The Benue students were suddenly declared winners of the “competition” but the identities of their co-debaters, panel of judges or even the crowd that witnessed the event at the expense of the state resources were not shown.
Grace Adagba “returned” to Nigeria with the “victorious” Benue team and presented the trophy to Governor Alia. A few days later, Catholic Diocese of Makurdi threatens to sue SUBEB for foul play. The church accused the SUBEB chairman of snatching a member of the Benue debate team from Mt. St. Gabriel’s Secondary School Makurdi owned by the Catholic Church to another school without the knowledge and approval of the school authorities.
At the moment, calls are emerging that Governor Alia must sack the SUBEB chairman for allegedly stealing N150 million fraud. There are speculations that the Indonesian Embassy in Nigeria has denied any knowledge of the so called debate competition in their country. Others have petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to immediately commence the probe of SUBEB under the watch of Alia.
Governor Alia is a very corrupt man. In all the places he served as a priest, there are records of his mismanagement of funds and embezzlement to build mansions for himself and his numerous women and children. But never did he build any structures for the church!
As a priest, Alia had no regard for his superiors and always tried to set them up against the congregation any time he was sanctioned over his immoral conduct with female parishioners. While he was at Anum, the Catholic Church opposite Benue State University gate, a lady who had a child for him petitioned Bishop Wilfred Anagbe. There were several similar petitions and complaints against Alia that the Bishop had no choice than to suspend him from parish activities. He was later transferred out of the parish.
Alia faked healing masses and deceived many unsuspecting people in the 1990s and early 2000s with arranged “miracles” of healing of sick people. Till today, he can’t point to anyone who is a well known person in any part of Benue State who was cured by his “healing miracles”. The good thing is that the church soon discovered his fake life and many people stopped attending his “healing masses”.
The man is not here as governor to genuinely serve the state. He is serving himself. He is capable of selling Benue and pocketing the proceeds. Look at what he did with the palliatives that President Tinubu released to the state. All other states shared the palliatives to their people but Alia said nothing. He used the money to bribe his way in the courts. After that, he used part of the N5 billion to buy old and refurbished buses for Benue Links. Those buses have been breaking down on the roads everyday.
President Tinubu recently released N50 billion to Benue and four other states facing insecurity but Alia is saying nothing about the state’s share of the money. Other state governors who also met arrears of salaries, pensions and gratuities have since cleared the backlog, but the Benue governor has done nothing. No one knows how much the state is getting despite the fact that with the removal of fuel subsidy by President Tinubu, monthly allocations have increased significantly.
Two civil groups wrote petitions to EFCC and other anti-corruption agencies to indict Governor Alia of embezzling N66 billion of public funds in just six months in office.
Alia has been awarding contracts to El-Rufai’s company without due process. He is using the projects to reimburse his chief election sponsor, the diminutive former Kaduna governor. El-Rufai’s company is the one handling the road constructions in Makurdi which cost is highly inflated – from N6 billion to N9 billion in less than two weeks without a state cabinet in place. The underpasses he is claiming to be building in Makurdi and Gboko are also conduit pipes for siphoning funds. Nothing will come out of those projects.
The Bible says in the book of Luke 16:10-14 thus: “Whoever can be trusted with small things can also be trusted with big things. Whoever is dishonest in little things will be dishonest in big things too.”
Benue people were warned about this man by those who knew him before he aspired to be governor, but the people refused to listen.
