His Excellency, Peter Gregory Onwubuasi Obi has offered himself once again to be the voice of the voiceless by becoming the real opposition he promised to become ever since the Supreme Court decided to take away his mandate given to him by the majority of Nigerian people.
Below are his view about the ostentatious N60B budget for the purchase of SUVs
“The recent expenditure of N60 billion for the purchase of SUV vehicles for about 400 legislators is a continuation of the troubling trend in our nation today. We have continued to abandon the critical areas of development measurement while expending scarce resources on needless.
luxury and creating comforts for those elected to serve the people. Our primary healthcare, which is the foundation of health, a critical development index measure, has collapsed, leading to our surpassing India, a country 7 times our population,in infant mortality, a very saddening situation. To allocate such a huge amount, which is more than what we allocated to our primary health care, is nothing but troubling. One third of that amount, with proper negotiation, would have given them locally manufactured SUV vehicles.
from Innoson Motors, PAN or any local auto assembly plant, to help boost our economy and create and retain jobs. Upon my being sworn in as the then Governor of Anambra State, I observed that our State High Court Judges, State Government Permanent Secretaries and newly appointed.
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State Commissioners had no vehicles. Anambra State Government had then ordered for two bullet proof SUV vehicles for my use. I cancelled the order and used the same money to negotiate a concessionary pricing with Peugeot Automobiles to supply us Sixty 406 vehicles
which were enough for all the cabinet members including myself and my deputy governor. We used the vehicles for our first tenure and were able to commence the work of doing more in the areas of health, education and lifting people out of poverty.
Nobody would contemplate this kind of expenditure under my administration. I urge all involved to depart from this path of wastage of public resources.
A more prudent and transparent Nigeria is possible. -PO
Where is PDP, the so called people that came 2nd?… This is how they left Buhari for 8 years that plunged this country into misery…. God bless Okwute always….. Even Labour Party are waking up as well..
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