Buhari's Embarrassing Budget; It's A Shame That Buhari Budgeted N4.8bn For Aso Rock Clinic That Could Not Take Care Of Umaru Yar'adua!

Rights activists on Friday described the N4bn proposed for Aso Rock clinic and N800m for a website in the 2016 budget as embarrassing and abnormal. The activists claimed that the proposals were the direct opposite of President Muhammadu Buhari’s change mantra.

President, Rights Monitoring Group and Country Director, Centre on Convention for Democratic Integrity, Mr. Femi Aduwo, said proposing such a huge amount for Aso Rock clinic and website indicated that the President’s change mantra was just by name and not by action.

He said, “If N4bn is proposed for Aso Rock clinic in a year and the facility is meant for the Very Important People, I want to believe that the VIPs go beyond the President and the Vice-President. For example, if you have an equipped clinic in Aso Rock, all the former presidents, former ministers and former governors can go there for medical check up, but as it were today, we know that all the former presidents and former governors don’t use Aso Rock clinic. This is an Aso Rock clinic that could not take care of former President Umaru Yar’Adua when he was sick.

“So, if you propose N4bn to be spent and there are elements of trust and transparency in the spending, there is no problem with that, but if you propose N10 for the project and the money is looted or stolen, we will still go back to square one. Read More Here