President Muhammadu Buhari's private jet as parked in London, United Kingdom where he is on a medical vacation is alleged ...
President Muhammadu Buhari's private jet as parked in London,
United Kingdom where he is on a medical vacation is alleged to be
consuming a whooping sum of 4,000 pounds everyday.
This has been revealed by a Nigerian based in the United Kingdom
named Arake Akinwande who covertly made enquiries about the cost of the
parking lot where the presidential private jet is expensively resting.
The actual location of the parking lot where the Big Bird is
basking in such luxury in a period of cash crunch and depression remains
fuzzy.
President Buhari who left the shores of this country on the 7th of
May, 2017 has spent a lengthy period of 52 days in London as he hides
under a lacuna in the Nigerian constitution which doesn't specify an
expiry period for his leave.
Using the official exchange rate of N400 to a Pound and multiplying
it by 52 days which Buhari has spent in Europe (as at the 29th of June,
2017), Buhari has expended a gargantuan some of N83.2million which is
bound to increase as Buhari's official leave as transmitted to the
National Assembly remains indefinite.
Arake Akinwande who is reported to be a supporter of President
Buhari has described his administration as a 'mistake' due to the
nauseating profligacy displayed by the ailing leader in austerity period
in Nigeria.
The Presidency to avoid provoking the over 110 million Nigerians
out of about 180 million people stricken with abject poverty has
refused to go public about Buhari's medical bills in the United Kingdom
as well as other seeming outrageous costs associated with logistics.
A rage was sparked among Nigerians late last year, 2016 when the
Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and
Publicity bowed to public pressure and revealed Mr. Buhari spent a sum
of £50,000 which is equivalent to N20.5 million at the Ear, Nose and
Throat (ENT) specialist in London in June, 2016.
Shehu made the comment on Sunday, September 18, after it was
alleged by a U.S-based Professor of Journalism, Farooq Kperogi that the
president spent £6 million on medical expenses.
“The disclosure on Prof. Farooq Kperogi’s wall that President
Muhammadu Buhari’s ear treatment in the United Kingdom cost a whopping
£6m must have shocked many of the respected scholar’s followers,” Shehu said via Facebook.
Reports gathered by Tori.ng reveals the ear infection could have
been treated in Nigeria but Buhari preferred to compound the issue
medical tourism in Nigeria which costs the nation a sum of $1 billion
per year. N3.2 billion was allocated to the State House Clinic in Abuja
for the treatment of President, the Vice President, their families,
personal staff and few privileged officials which is embarrassingly more
than the budgetary allocation to all the teaching hospitals in Nigeria
according to the 2016 national budget. Yet, Mr. Buhari who stands for
"Change" and banned public servants from accessing the public purse to
finance medical attention abroad has failed to lead by example and allow
"change to begin with him".
The ostentatious management of the presidential jet is a story
Nigerians may never want to hear currently due to the shambolic state of
the local economy which is neck-deep into recession with ineffective
interventions from the government. Several manufacturing companies are
beginning to shutdown over lack of access to foreign exchange to import
raw materials for production, salaries of workers are being slashed and
delayed, 5.5 million people lost their jobs in the current 2-year
administration of Buhari, double digit inflation of 16.25% has further
impoverished the poor masses supporting the anti-graft war.
The Naira
appears to share the same health status with the President, about 23
states which are component units in Nigeria are insolvent, agriculture
which is being hoped to actualize the diversification of the Nigerian
economy is at risk due to the security challenges of the gun-wielding
Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram operatives ravaging the local and
agrarian communities leaving over 2 million people displaced and many
more challenges left unabated.
The image-makers of the Buhari administration might be having much
work to do to douse the opprobrium and odium brewing up from the
rumoured N83.2 million Buhari's private jet has idly drawing from tax
payer's sweats when the people can hardly feed well.
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