Sir: It is very annoying whenever I read in the media that a governor has donated this or that to institutions in his State. In the real sense, I have heard of a governor donating medical equipment to the State hospitals, and another donating computers to the schools while some announcing provision of boreholes and electrification of non-available electricity, to their rural communities.
If one may ask: From where do they get the money to do all the above? They go about it as they were doing it with their personal money and not the tax payers’ money kept in their custody. Again if you look at the costs of the so-called provisions, you will discover that they were inflated. This is again stealing from the State pauses. If such actions of the governors should be so taken, what then is left of the democracy dividends, as per campaign promises, that they all claim would be delivered to the masses?
Let it be decreed now that governors or local government chairmen who after now continue with such noise making should be openly challenged by the electorates.
As a matter of fact, governors are chief (and not thief) servants of their States. They have continued with the habit of enriching themselves, cronies and fronts to the detriment of those they are supposed to be serving. Day in and out, they have committed the acts yet the anti-graft agencies that are believed to be lacking in integrity, turns their eyes the other way.
Never again should we read in the media that a governor donated one thing or the other to the people of his State. They should stop playing on the intelligence of the masses and consider that it is a misdemeanor and should not be entertained any longer. This is a country where anything goes and it is a big shame.
Nwadi Okoro/Wetheral Road/Owerri/Imo State
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