N6.5bn recreational facilities, other phony expenditures; Otti’s unseen performance
....Not going to give lecture in Harvard university empty classroom
By Com. Emeka Ubani
I want to know of any project Gov. Alex Otti started and has completed for Abia State that warrants the billions he spends to promote himself on social media.
The government continuous sponsor of social media noise on Otti’s unseen performance is getting rather ridiculous and too irritating, considering the sharp contrast on the ground in Abia State which is today the unemployment and hunger capital of Nigeria.
Fact; Otti has received over N500bn in revenue yet cannot point at any standard project he has started and completed apart from the brand-new and non-existent N6.5bn recreational facilities, the N4.6bn agricultural land and others worth over N10bn.
Otti’s performance is to claim projects done by other Governors by merely retrofitting, painting, asphalting and commissioning existing structures like JAAC building, roads, specialist hospital Aba, Aba town hall etc.
Otti’s most outstanding infrastructure is his N7bn research and development but the only problem is to show Abians where it is located or how the research was done with such a humongous amount.
I am happy that Otti has employed most of the 20,000 workers he sacked from the public service in his N2.4bn ICT infrastructure. Again, nobody knows the location.
*Apart from the N6bn per km work at Port Harcourt road, Aba totaling N32bn with jara of N2bn , which is, of course, the costliest in Africa, what other road has not constructed to justify cleaning out N200bn ?; those patch-patch roads, ordinary Ossah road expansion of not more than bare addition of shoulders on both sides and mere asphalted roads many of which rain has washed away cannot in good conscience gulp N200bn. (Bikonu the coastal road that has many components like railway lines, lightning effects, bridges, etc how much per kilometer?)
Abia is the more they tell you on social media the less you see on the ground.
Where is a single project that Otti started and has completed?
Over N500bn was received in revenue, yet salaries and welfare of Abia workers are the lowest nationwide. A grade level 10 Abia worker earns less than a level one step one in Edo state civil service who earns N71,328.99K whereas level one step 15th in same Edo State earns 7878,081.13K.
Abia workers should check which grade level in Abia service earns N78,081.13 K which is equivalent to what level 01-step 15 earns in Edo State.
Abia State workers take note: Payment of N70k for grade level 01-Step 01 with the mere addition of N10k extra on subsequent grade levels as consequential adjustments on salaries isn’t payment of minimum wage but still a continuation of N10k wage award cloaked as “Payment of minimum wage “.
Workers shouldn’t accept their lame excuse of asking what previous administrations did because Otti didn’t canvass for votes to compete who will punish workers most.
Otti campaigned to do better than previous administrations and not do worse but run to social media to promote himself or always run to Harvard empty classroom with 80 people watching via online platforms to give unnecessary lectures on democracy when he (Otti) is mostly undemocratic in his own government decisions.
Ubani, CSO Aba, Abia State
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