It's just a decoy for a summer holiday- Falana slams proposed Governors' trip to Germany
Fri Jul 22, 2016 12:34:pm Politics
2.9K By Buchi Obichie
The Chairman of the Nigerian Governors' Forum, Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, revealed to State House correspondents on Thursday in Abuja, that State Governors are currently concluding arrangements on their plan to embark on a trip to Germany.
Governor Yari described the trip as being "vocational" in nature, but did not disclose when the Governors would embark on the trip.
Foremost human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, described the proposed trip as frivolous and appealed to the German government to deny the governors visa concerned.
He described the trip as "a decoy for a summer holiday" that would amount to further waste of the scarce resources at a time the nation was said to be broke.
In his words: "There are here enough solutions to the problems of the nation which the Governors are not attending to.
"You said the country is broke, Governors are embarking on jamboree to Germany.
"We are going to appeal to the German authority not to give them visa so that they can stay at home and work.
"We will contact the German Government not to be party to this wastage by the Nigerian Government.
"The Federal Government has just adopted about 147-page report on agriculture. How many of them have read the report?
"I think it's just a decoy for a summer holiday."
The trip is coming at a time when at least 27 state Governments can no longer pay workers' salaries.
Governor Yari described the trip as being "vocational" in nature, but did not disclose when the Governors would embark on the trip.
Foremost human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, described the proposed trip as frivolous and appealed to the German government to deny the governors visa concerned.
He described the trip as "a decoy for a summer holiday" that would amount to further waste of the scarce resources at a time the nation was said to be broke.
In his words: "There are here enough solutions to the problems of the nation which the Governors are not attending to.
"You said the country is broke, Governors are embarking on jamboree to Germany.
"We are going to appeal to the German authority not to give them visa so that they can stay at home and work.
"We will contact the German Government not to be party to this wastage by the Nigerian Government.
"The Federal Government has just adopted about 147-page report on agriculture. How many of them have read the report?
"I think it's just a decoy for a summer holiday."
The trip is coming at a time when at least 27 state Governments can no longer pay workers' salaries.
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