A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chika Nwoba, has queried the rationale behind the recommissioning of the rehabilitated runway of the Chuba Okadigbo airport in Ebonyi State.
He said it amounted to a waste of resources since the airport had been commissioned two years ago.
The runway, which was rehabilitated by Governor Francis Nwifuru, was recommissioned by the wife of the president, Sen. Remi Tinubu, on Friday in an elaborate ceremony.
Reacting to the development, Nwoba stated that it was shameful that, about two years after the airport, built by former Governor Dave Umahi, was commissioned by former President Muhammed Buhari without yielding a kobo to the state, more money was being spent to recommission it.
He said, “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State uses this opportunity to berate the APC-led government of Ebonyi State over the government’s penchant for frivolities.
“It is very disturbing. We don’t have a problem with hosting the president’s wife, but with the amount of public money that was sunk into it when the people of the state groan in hunger and abject poverty.
“It bothers a sane mind a great deal to know that the government could recommission an airport project that had already been commissioned two years ago. Using the face of the president’s wife as a decoy to embark on this wasteful and theatrical outing is what we frown at. This is a case of the government’s inhumanity to its populace.
“It’s on this premise and more that we urge the government to backtrack from wasteful expenditures and begin to meet the people of the state at the points of their collective needs. It’s alarming also to note that the people of Ebonyi don’t feel the impacts of government yet in the face of the fiscal abundance the government swims in. The PDP in Ebonyi is bothered about all these inglorious events taking shape in the state and charges the administration of Gov. Nwifuru to rise to the mandate of tackling the immediate needs of the state and her people in this time of great economic distress.”
