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In Nigeria, we
like to show-off while we're nobody! Can you imagine that 21 Peoples Democratic
Party [PDP] governors on Saturday night at the presidential villa in Abuja to
announce N1.05 billion in donation to the PDP, while some states, the
indebtedness to workers stretched a year.
In Ebonyi,
authorities owed teachers under the Universal Basic Education scheme
nearly 12 months of salaries. Abia State, secondary school
teachers were last paid in August, while primary school teachers have been owed
since October. In Cross River, the situation had worsened after months of
indebtedness that state-run television, the Cross River Broadcasting
Corporation, CRBC, shut off production last week.
Akwa Ibom State, the nation’s leading oil
producer which draws more than triple of what other states receive from the
federation account monthly, local government staff were on strike. Before the
strike, they were forced to receive half salaries for several months, while
authorities claimed they had no money.
But on Saturday
night, Cross State governor, Liyel Imoke, stood next to his Bauchi
State colleague, Isa Yuguda, as Mr. Yuguda announced to a gleeful president and
a shocked nation how the 21 governors who had been struggling to pay salaries
long before the present oil crisis, rallied N50 million each in donation to the
PDP.
“We may do more
in future, but that is what we were able to raise for now,” Mr. Yuguda assured.
In all, the PDP
and the president raked in over N21 billion, with donations coming
from government contractors, nameless associates, and Tunde Ayeni, the head of
Skye Bank, who has bought a string of government assets, including
the mega telecoms carrier, NITEL/MTEL, in a process that has already become
controversial. ,
Source: Premium Times
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