By Gidigba Group
_...MOWAA is private entity on Benin soil, can't become tool for political grandstanding_
The conceptualization of the MOWAA facility by the visionary ex-governor Godwin Obaseki is no doubt knocking the Okpebholo-led administration off its feet—one year on, Okpebholo's administration can't find its footing; it's been a barrage of confusion, missteps, misadventures and a crass lack of intellectual fecondity to administer Edo.
The MOWAA concept—a beautiful monument to showcase West African Art on Benin soil, remains Edo's greatest achievement in recent times; but for the primitive politicking that has become commonplace in Okpebholo's Edo, MOWAA ought to be a beautiful bride: nursed, pampered, breastfed and nurtured to adulthood by successive administrations.
The vast majority of Edo people at home and in the diaspora remain eternally grateful to Obaseki for leaving a shoe too big to wear—"Okpebholo see governance e confuse".
Few weeks ago, news made the rounds that the Edo State House of Assembly has set up machinery to investigate Radisson and MOWAA—two internationally-acclaimed facilities that stamps Edo on the global map; obviously the news was an empty media noise, a serious Assembly would have long released its reports, but then, the current Assembly has become less powerful than a rubber stamp, capable of doing nothing serious—the composition of another Committee to investigate MOWAA, while the Assembly is purportedly still investigating, signposts the incapacity of the Assembly and the unseriousness of the Okpebholo-led administration.
Only God knows what the Edo State government is investigating in MOWAA—a global edifice that any government should naturally safeguard.
Other than politically-motivated reports, what would the Oshiomhole-led committee say of MOWAA; we understand an important member of the Committee already indicated his uninterestedness in the matter, noting that a facility like MOWAA should gain the embrace of Edo and not the antagonism it has had to swallow under the Okpebholo-led administration.
This development also serves an eye-opener to potential investors who would capitalize on the MOWAA brouhaha to see Edo a hostile community for investment—this of cause suggests why the Okpebholo-led administration can't boast of one investment attracted to Edo in its one year in office; how can he, when the investments his predecessor pulled to Edo are suffering serious political persecution.
Indeed, it is a trying time for Edo, the Okpebholo-led administration cannot succeed on anything—no administration succeeds without policy, programmes, plans; reason Edo is now being run like a motorpark where cross-border area boys and all manner of characters call the shots in government circle.
The Edo State House of Assembly, a critical government arm that ought to be the voice of the people, helping to check and balance governance, has become largely incapacitated, powerless, visionless, a toothless bulldog that has lost even its barking power—having become incapable to investigate ordinary MOWAA, and with another Committee now constituted on the Assembly's head to investigate same matter, which no tangible result will emerge eventually, shows the confusion bedeviling Okpebholo's government.
Surely, Edo will rise again.
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