Fayose carpets FG for hiring Malaysian experts for N458m

By Rotimi Ojomoyela

Ado-Ekiti

Ekiti state Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has faulted the federal government’s hiring of consultants from Malaysia with the sum of N458 million to help Nigeria build her economic capacity.
He said the move was not only an indication that President Muhammadu Buhari and his team lacked the capacity to offer effective governance, but also that “the federal government’s action is a clear vote of no confidence on President Buhari’s government and economic experts in the country.”
The governor said: “It is shameful that Nigeria, which produced the likes of African Development Bank (ADB) President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina; Treasurer and Vice President of the World Bank, Mrs. Aruma Otteh; Independent Non-Executive Director of Standard Chartered Plc, United Kingdom, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Professor of Political Economy, Pat Utomi, among others, is now paying people from Malaysia to revive its economy.”
In a statement issued yesterday by Special Assistant to the governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said “out-sourcing consultancy for the conduct of study that would aid the implementation of the National Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) is tantamount to telling Nigerians that they all lack capacity to govern their own country.”
“How can you hire foreign consultants that would work for 13 weeks to conduct a study on how to revive the economy of a country like Nigeria and pay the consultant N458 million?”

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