Chukwuma Soludo, Governor of Anambra State, has said that the nation’s political class should take a serious look at themselves, especially after the controversial elimination of petrol subsidies.
The governor expressed his thoughts on the subject, emphasizing the insensitivity of state governors parading around in massive convoys of “20-something cars.”
Soludo made these statements to state house media following a five-hour National Economic Council (NEC) meeting at the presidential palace in Abuja on Thursday.
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He said, “I think it’s an omnibus concept, and it’s not something you sit down in a meeting to legislate for each and every state.
“But the fact that the council recognises that this is an issue that each tier of government should now focus on as an area of concern.
“That we mustn’t live…even the cost of running the state, the way we even live, someone gave an example of a state governor going with 20-something vehicles in a convoy and all these have to be fuelled, and so on and so forth.
“And the fact that even amongst ourselves, almost like in a peer review kind of setting, we are talking to ourselves.
“Hey gentlemen, we would need to be sensitive to the times, we need to live within the average of the people that we’re governing and so on and so forth and knock off the waste and the irrelevancies so to speak.
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“I mean, I would like to give you a simple example. We are not going to legislate for everybody, everybody is to go and look into his mind.
“When I assumed office, for example, it was costing about N137 million every month to clean up public offices, and so on.
“Today, in Anambra we’re doing N11 million a month from N137 million on a monthly basis, this is just an illustration.
“It’s a thing that we’re persuading each and every one of us to look into, that we should check our books and look ourselves in the mirror and move with the times.
“So it is not that the council sat and began to prescribe, you have 12 number of advisors or five, we didn’t get to that but each person will do that.”
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He also stated that the council considered the prospect of establishing a new minimum wage in light of spiraling inflation and exorbitant living costs.
In order to mitigate the impact on the system, he stated that the amount to be split among federating units for July will be roughly N900 billion rather than N2 trillion.
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