CLO To Jonathan

Stop This Profligacy, CLO Tells Jonathan

The Anambra Sate Branch of the Civil Liberties Organization has condemned the plan by the federal government of Nigeria to spend a whooping sum of 1 billion Naira for Jonathan’s presidential inauguration.

Describing the bogus sum as sheer waste of money and misplaced priority, the CLO decried a situation where government can just wake up overnight and begin to disburse outrageous amount of money for jamborees without recourse to the national budget while the masses suffer untold hardships.

In a press statement signed by the chairman, Comrade Aloysius Attah and Secretary, Comrade Justus Ijeoma, the human rights group called on President Goodluck Jonathan to chart a new course by hitting the ground running so as to solve the myriads of problems confronting the nation.

“As at March this year, Nigeria ’s debt profile continued to escalate with $ 5,227 billion external and N4.869 trillion domestic debts with no single project one can lay claim that the federal government financed with these loans. The cost of living gets higher everyday with kerosene and cement already out of the reach of the common man, yet all the presidency can think of at this point in time is to invite about forty world leaders to “come and chop”.

“Nigerians doesn’t need such grand inauguration ceremonies, what we require from Mr president and other elected political office holders presently is an achievable blue print on how to move Nigeria forward and make life better and meaningful to its teeming population” the group said.