NATIONAL CONFAB

DELEGATES TO BE PAID ABOUT 12MILLION NAIRA TO CHAT A WAY FORWARD
The national confab convened by President Goodluck Jonathan, currently on going in the nation's federal capital territory has had some intriguing revelations despite the fact the fact that it is still at its early stage. It has so far been touted in the media that a "whooping" N4 million per month, amounting to N12m for the 3 months duration of the national conference, will be paid to each delegate across board.
With this outrageous amount, one begins to ask lots of questions. Do these delegates who are supposed citizens and representatives of their people need this huge amount to chat a new course for the sleeping gaint of Africa? Why do we always put the cart before the horse? In the midst of high rate of unemployment amongst our youth where some died few weeks back scrambling for NIS job test; our beloved Federal government still has millions to spill on people who are supposed to be patriots. Before the removal of the CBN governor, we were battling about missing monies up to tune of about $20 billion which is still not accounted for. There were long queues in filling stations across the country about a week ago which we are slowly recovering from and the government has been weeping that it has to totally remove subsidy due to heavy financial losses. Yet, with all these, and many more financial woes befalling the country at the moment, the federal government didn't bat an eyelid in allocating such a juicy amount of money for the confab.
Little wonders why majority of those in the conference seems to have been handpicked by the "powers that be" to represent their people. And why some ethnic nationalities seems to have been given a larger number of slots while some narrowly got one.
As the delegates collect these mouth watering bonuses, they should not forget that the future of this great nation lies on the outcome of this conference. A spirit of nationality and unity in diversity should be their watch word. Posterity awaits their decision.
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