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We’re scandalised by Tinubu administration’s wasteful spending – Afenifere

We’re scandalised by Tinubu administration’s wasteful spending – Afenifere

Pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, has expressed concern over what it described as the near collapse of the nation since the administration of President Bola Tinubu took over.

Afenifere, in a communique by the Deputy Leader, Oladipo Olaitan and Deputy Secretary General, Alade Rotimi-John after the regular quarterly meeting held on August 27, 2024, at Isanya- Ogbo, Ogun State, maintained said the state of the nation has left the people perplexed.

Afenifere noted that the Nigerian people are sorely troubled by the pervasive hardship, crippling hunger, unremitting insecurity in the land, runaway inflation, and massive unemployment all of which have left the people worse off than they were at the beginning.

The group also observed the reckless, obstinate and indifferent attitude of the government to the long-term effects of the lack of forethought or purpose regarding the handling of the public revenue.

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Afenifere, therefore, rued some of the Tinubu administration’s profligate predilection or inclination to waste resources, stating that $100m or N 240 billion as the purchase price for an Airbus A330 as a jet for the President and a further $50m to retrofit it is uncalled for.

In addition, Afenifere noted that N950m each as purchase price of a new set of armoured Cadillac Escalade Limousine SUVs as befitting vehicles for the President, N21billion for renovating a new mansion for the Vice President, N90billion as subsidy for religious pilgrimage and N10 billion to renovate the Presidential Lodge as Ribadu Road, Lagos among others give an insight of a wasteful nature of the administration.

“Afenifere is scandalised or shamed by the odium and poor international or global image which have attended these profligate or prodigal expenditures. We are puzzled that a government can be so masterful at diversionary tactics just to lull the people to sleep and confuse them as they wake amid grave national circumstances and of a strident or sustained debate of its desultory or unmethodical handling of governance”.

We’re scandalised by Tinubu administration’s wasteful spending – Afenifere

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