Adamawa LG wives’ Turkey trip wasteful —Foundation

ABUJA—Naija Times Journalism Foundation, NTJF, has condemned what it described arsenic a reckless and needless discarded of nationalist resources connected a overseas travel to Turkey by wives of section authorities chairmen successful Adamawa State, purportedly for ‘leadership training’.

In a powerfully worded connection signed by its Chairman, Mr. Ehi Braimah, the Foundation described the improvement arsenic provocative, corrupt and an insult to the sensibilities of citizens, particularly astatine a clip erstwhile cardinal sectors of the system successful Adamawa are suffering from gross underfunding.

“The past clip we checked, spouses of LGA Chairmen are not nationalist officials. Even the thought of enactment grooming successful a overseas onshore amounts to a bogus contraption meant to siphon nationalist funds,” NTJF declared.

The radical noted that Adamawa remains 1 of Nigeria’s poorest states, citing National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, information which ranks it arsenic the 5th poorest successful the state with a 75.41 per cent poorness rate.

It added that the authorities has endured years of insurgency and humanitarian crisis, requiring urgent concern successful education, healthcare, infrastructure and societal payment alternatively than extravagant overseas trips.

“It defies content and communal consciousness that astatine a clip Nigerians are clamouring for prudent and judicious usage of scarce nationalist resources, officials astatine the section level are frittering distant funds connected frivolities that adhd nary worth to citizens,” NTJF said.

The Foundation alleged that nary budgetary provisions existed for the expenditure, describing the enactment arsenic “unbridled corruption, fiscal indiscipline and impunity.” It called connected the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, to unfastened an contiguous probe into the matter, insisting that specified violations of nationalist concern laws cannot spell unpunished.

“For the anti-corruption agencies, holding these errant officials accountable would beryllium successful enactment with Section 15(5) of the 1999 Constitution, which intelligibly mandates the authorities to abolish each corrupt practices and maltreatment of power,” the connection added.

NTJF besides warned that tolerating specified abuses would embolden different officials crossed the state to proceed diverting nationalist funds nether dubious guises. It urged civilian society, the media, taste and spiritual leaders, arsenic good arsenic whistleblowers, to emergence against corruption and exposure akin acts of impunity wherever they occur.

The radical linked its telephone to the ongoing statement connected taxation reforms successful Nigeria, stressing that beyond expanding the taxation net, determination indispensable beryllium strict accountability successful the usage of nationalist funds.

“Ultimately, citizens carnivore the brunt of corruption and needless expenditures specified arsenic the Turkey trip. This is wherefore we indispensable collectively request transparency and accountability astatine each levels of governance,” NTJF maintained.

The Foundation pledged to proceed moving with national groups and anti-corruption advocates to combat misuse of nationalist finances, informing that soundlessness successful the look of specified brazen discarded would lone perpetuate the rhythm of poorness and underdevelopment successful states similar Adamawa.

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