Shehu Sani also urged President Tinubu to ensure there are proper checks in place while distributing palliative funds
Kehinde Okeowo
Human rights activist and former senator, Shehu Sani has thrown his weight behind the stance of Anambra State governor, Charles on the need for governors to be sensitive to the plights of Nigerians, following the removal of fuel subsidy.
Soludo had on Thursday while speaking after the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting at the Council Chambers of the State House in Abuja, urged fellow governors to prune down on their use of funds amid the hardship Nigerians are currently facing.
The former Central Bank Governor cautioned governors against being insensitive, noting it’s wrong to have long convoys while their subjects are reeling in hardship.
He said: “That we mustn’t live, even the cost of running the state, the way we even live, someone gave an example of a state governor going with 20-something vehicles in a convoy and all these have to be fuelled.”
Soludo added: “Hey gentlemen, we would need to be sensitive to the times; we need to live within the average of the people that we’re governing, and so on and so forth, and knock off the waste and the irrelevancies, so to speak,”
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After his comment, Shehu Sani took to his social media page, where he noted that some state governors might even use the funds for palliative to pay contractors, pay backlog of salaries, settle domestic debt, among others.
He went on to urge the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to put proper checks in place while distributing the palliative funds.
Taking to his social media page he tweeted: “Without proper check, some states will use palliative funds to pay contractors they are owing or pay the inherited backlog of salaries and pensions or use it to settle their domestic debts with Banks or use it settle political supporters; Soludo is right, all states are not equal.”
