What do you need 130 SAs for? Critics query Rivers council chairman’s extravagance

What do you need 130 SAs for? Critics query Rivers council chairman’s extravagance 

Chairman of the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area in Rivers State, Chijioke Ihunwo, has appointed 130 individuals to serve as his special assistants.

This show of wasteful spending has not gone down well with the people as shown in their comments on social media, newstrends reports.

This is coming after the Supreme Court granted financial autonomy to all 774 local governments in Nigeria.

The Supreme Court judgement was generally applauded because many felt state governors were annexing local government funds, thus making it difficult to implement developmental projects in such rural areas.

Ihunwo announced the appointments on some of his social media platforms, indicating that they would take immediate effect.

Most people wondered what the chairman intended to do with such a large number of special advisers.

Nsikan Udo said, “Just employ the whole local government indigenes! Pay all of us salary. After all, na our money… make we just share the full allocation!”

A Facebook user, Jude Ojei, as saying, “What do you need 130 personal assistants for? I know it is for political patronage, but I think it’s too much because you have other political appointees. This is my personal opinion, though.”

In his reaction, Chidiebere Dike, wrote, “I love you, Chijioke, and I want you to succeed, but at this point, you are losing it.

“What does a local government chairman need 130 special assistants for, plus the others you appointed initially, plus your vice and councillors? What is all this nonsense?”

ChimaOgba stated, “What the people ordered. This one is mini-Wike waiting in the wings to pounce on Rivers people.”