BY EBUN SESSOU
The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has taken a swipe at his colleagues for blaming the death of late Super Eagles striker, Rashidi Yekini, on the Federal Government.

According to him, even lawmakers share in the blame for waiting till his death before bringing up his predicament before the House.

Ikuforiji told his colleagues at the plenary to stop attacking the Federal Government at every opportunity, asking them what roles they personally played in the life of the late Yekini before his death.

A member of the House, Babatunde Ayeni, had drawn the attention of the his colleagues to the demise of the footballer under Matter of Urgent Public Importance.

Ayeni, the Chairman of the House Committee on Youth, Sports and Social Development, lamented that while Yekini was alive, he was abandoned by the country he served meritoriously, but that the country’s leaders were now flooding the society with condolence messages and describing him glowingly.

While reacting to their arguments, Ikuforiji said, “We are most times unreasonably sentimental and we keep bombarding and blaming the Federal Government for everything in this country, but nobody is willing to correct the anomalies. If you felt so passionate about his contributions, why couldn’t a member of this House come to the floor and encourage other members to contribute even a portion of our income towards taking care of people like Rashidi Yekini?

“Rashidi would not have died if those who now pretend to be holier-than-thou had souls that were living and had done something about it instead of coming today to start blaming the Federal Government which itself is no longer what it had been. “My verdict is that: we are guilty and this is the truth,” Ikuforiji concluded.