Former minister of education Oby Ezekwesili has knocked the Federal Government, lawmakers and governors, accusing them of being involved in what she called fiscal rascality.
Ezekwesili stated this in a piece on Tuesday posted on X following the Federal Government’s purchase of a new presidential jet.
President Bola Tinubu travelled to France on Monday for the first time aboard the jet.
The Airbus 330 aircraft was said to have been recovered from an indebted oil sheikh who used the aeroplane as collateral for a loan he obtained from an unidentified German bank to buy it.
Nigeria reportedly paid over $100 million to purchase the aircraft.
Ezekwesili accused Tinubu, lawmakers, and state governors of spending scarce public funds on projects and luxuries while Nigeria is highly overburdened with debts.
She wrote, “What a big shame on the @NigeriaGov of @NGRPresident @officialABAT and the lawmakers @nassnigeria! The worst display of fiscal rascality is when political and public leaders of a country that is highly overburdened with debts of all kinds, choose to spend scarce public resources on prestige projects and luxuries.
“Imagine the @NGRPresident and his Vice, @NGRSenate and @HouseNGR of @nassnigeria and the Governors of mostly unviable 36 states enjoying obscene luxuries while asking the Poor ‘to sacrifice for the future’.
“Something will have to give someday soon, because this level of unjust governance is frankly not sustainable.
“The Class War that members of the Nigerian political class are asking for by their insensitivity to the plight of the people will for sure end their fiscal rascality. Again, this level of unjust governance is frankly not sustainable.
“For one, the current Citizens’ restiveness will remain with us no matter how much the folks in @NigeriaGov pretend that it is not hunger that drove citizens into the massive #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protests.
“Having been following the raging controversy on the ‘Salaries of Lawmakers @nassnigeria’ the deja vu is uncanny; recalling a similar uproar that followed a Keynote Speech I delivered on Cost of Governance on August 19, 2013 @cislacnigeria conference.
“Yesterday was exactly eleven years ago of that saga.”
