{"id":522,"date":"2024-07-29T08:56:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T08:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=522"},"modified":"2024-07-29T08:56:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T08:56:17","slug":"govt-functionaries-responsible-for-looming-protest-hon-ikeweche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2024\/07\/29\/govt-functionaries-responsible-for-looming-protest-hon-ikeweche\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt functionaries responsible for looming protest- Hon Ikeweche"},"content":{"rendered":"
George Mgbeleke, Abuja<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Ahead of the looming nationwide protest, a radical member of the House of Representatives, representing Aba North and South, Hon Alex Mascot Ikeweche has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to channel the money mapped out for forcefully quelling the protest to providing meaningful employment and succour that would ameliorate the hardship experience by Nigerians.<\/div>\n
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According to the vibrant lawmaker, the planned protest is necessitated by the\u00a0 excessive display of wealth by the\u00a0 government functionaries in the All Progressive Congress(APC) President Tinubu and high rate of hunger in the land.<\/div>\n
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“The truth is this,there’s so much hunger in the land. I don’t think Nigeria’s had it this bad except for maybe just a couple of years the citizens were pushed\u00a0 into\u00a0 a civil war period.<\/div>\n
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“During the period, people could barely buy food to eat. It may be slightly difficult for the political class, especially people that have been successful for a long time, to truly understand the plight of the people as of today.<\/div>\n
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“There are certain things that go on and when the poor, the poorest of the poor get to hear them, it breaks their hearts and that is why people are very proud interested about this protest.<\/div>\n
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” You can be telling people to tighten their belt when<\/div>\n
governors, presidents, ministers are still busy driving bulletproof vehicles, Lexus 600 SUVs. You see one governor riding on 30 cars. You see one minister riding on 15 cars. You see the President riding on 50 cars and then you expect them to tighten their belt. Just like I said earlier, that if government is truly interested in having people’s belts tightened, government should live by example, he said.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Continuing Hon Ikeweche said,”They should set that example. And the President can say, okay, I’m moving aaround with four cars, five cars. Bule puver, cause he’s the president. I mean, it’s something that he deserves to do. But moving around with 50 cars?<\/div>\n
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“I mean this is just a few of course. And then we cut down on a lot of different things. Do we actually need the number of people that are being paid in government? Let me explain this. From a technocratic or entrepreneurial standpoint, when an entity, a business entity begins to fail, what it does is it cuts on costs. What is the federal government doing to cut costs?of governance.<\/div>\n
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“There is a perverseness of prodigality, total avoidance of frugality in the day-to-day running of government. What is the government doing to cut governance, cost of governance? That has to be done. While preparing the budget, do you bring consultants to take time to scrutinise the content of what is inserted in the budget.<\/div>\n
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“When it gets to us here, you give us one month to scrutinize this budget. How do we scrutinize the budget within one month? And then everybody is rushing. By right, in September, as soon as we are resuming the session, the budget should be on our table.<\/div>\n
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“Okay, the president should present the 2025 budget so that we can take between September and December to scrutinize the budget and then approve it. If there are things that we feel that shouldn’t be there in the budget, then we quickly do it. The legislative arm of government should remain independent.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0“The judicial arm of government should remain independent. The executive arm of government should remain independent.”<\/div>\n
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“These are little, little things that we ought to do for the country to move forward. A popular senator once said, if you tell the truth, you die. If you tell a lie, you die. It’s better I tell the truth and die so that I know that I spoke the truth. Now…”<\/div>\n
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George Mgbeleke, Abuja \u00a0Ahead of the looming nationwide protest, a radical member of the House of Representatives, representing Aba North and South, Hon Alex Mascot Ikeweche has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to channel the money mapped out for forcefully quelling the protest to providing meaningful employment and succour that would ameliorate the hardship […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[98,152,302,228],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-government","tag-hunger","tag-lawmaker","tag-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}