According to Professor Usman Yusuf, the former secretary of the CDS Action Committee on Hostages, Godswill Akpabio, the president of the Nigerian Senate, received funding for the installation of lighting for his constituency projects. The estimated cost of one of the streetlights was around N190 million. CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
This claim was made by Professor Usman Yusuf in an Arise Television interview with a few journalists. Professor Usman Yusuf declared in the interview that Senator Akpabio, the president of the Senate, was the most despicable person he had ever seen. Your constituency was granted N21 billion. Boreholes cost more than N180 million each, while solar lamps sold for more than N190 million on the budget.”
“If this is not corruption then what is? At the time our people are dying of hunger, at the time our children are being diagnosed kwashiorkor, at a time patients are abandoning their medications because they cannot afford it, our representatives are feeding fat on our common wealth.” CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
