How Buhari’s United State Visit Will Cost Nigeria, N2.2Billion
President Muhammadu Buhari will be visiting Washington D.C, the US capital for his meeting with President Barack Obama next week, Monday with an announced 32-man delegation and unannounced aides numbering average of 10 that would be accompanying governors, ex-governors, State House officials and businessmen.
This will bring the total number of Nigerians on this visit with President Buhari to about 229, being the biggest Presidential delegation in Nigerian democratic history. This contingent will cost Nigeria about N2.2billion from the virtually empty Treasury.
The Presidency have earlier announced that those expected to join the President on the visit include Governors Kashim Shettima (Borno), Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Adams Oshiomhole (Edo), Tanko Al-Makura (Nasarawa) and Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo) Each with 15 aids.
The rather large delegation will also have former Rivers State Governor Chibuike Amaechi; Buhari’s running mate in the 2011 presidential election, Pastor Tunde Bakare; former President of the Newspapers Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) and publisher of The Democrat, Ismaila Isa Funtua; a former Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazzau; and Halilu Sheni, a businessman.
Others in the delegation will include officials in the presidency and some heads of government parastatals.
Apart from the number about about 10 government officials have already left the United States in what they claimed is preparing grounds for the Visit.
YET THEY CLAIM THEY MET THE NATIONAL TREASURY VIRTUALLY EMPTY O!..
LORD HAVE MERCY WITH ALL THESE WASTEFUL SPENDING OF NIGERIA POLITICIANS!
SORRY BUT MAY I JUST ASK WHY SO MANY PEOPLE GOING ON THIS VISIT TO THE USA WITH HIM?…
MANY ARE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WHO ARE MEANT TO BE WORKING ESPECIALLY STATE GOVERNORS, SORRY BUT HAVE MANY OF THESE GOVERNORS PAID THE SALARIES OWED TO THE CIVIL SERVANTS AND PENSIONERS BEFORE GALAVANTING ACROSS THE GLOBE WITH PA BUHARI?
SORRY BUT DID BABA OBASANJO AND GEJ BOTH FORMER PRESIDENTS OF NIGERIA CARRY SO MUCH ENTOURAGE WITH THEM WHEN VISITING OTHER COUNTRIES NI?…
OR AM I MISSING SOMETHING HERE?.
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME ABOUT THIS ESPECIALLY WHEN THIS NEW GOVERNMENT ARE CLAIMING POVERTY IN RULING THE COUNTRY, GIVING EXCUSES ABOUT SLOW AND STEADY WINNING THE DAMN RACE, WHEN CERTAIN NATIONAL ISSUES LIKE BOKO HARAM, HAVING NO PROPER CABINET IN PLACE WILL NOW BE FLYING TO THE USA JUST BECAUSE BARAK OBAMA INVITED PA BUHARI???…
WOULD PRESIDENT OBAMA LEAVE HIS OWN COUNTRY IN DISARRAY AND GO TO ANOTHER COUNTRY JUST BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT OF THAT COUNTRY INVITED HIM?..
SORRY BUT WHY IS HE THE ONE GOING OVER THERE THOUGH?
WHY COULDN’T BARAK OBAMA THE PRESIDENT OF USA HIMSELF VISIT NIGERIA ALSO, AFTER ALL HE HAS BEEN THE PRESIDENT OF USA FOR OVER 8YEARS?
IT IS ABOUT TIME AS THE GIANT OF AFRICA FOR NIGERIA TO START BEHAVING LIKE ONE AND STOP SELLING THEMSELVES TOO SHORT AND CHEAP TO OTHER COUNTRIES INTERNATIONALLY!..
CULLED FROM AN ONLINE NEWS MEDIA…
