PETER OBI WASTED N2TR OF ANAMBRA FUNDS - DR. CHRIS NGIGE

Former governor of Anambra State and the All Progressives Congress
(APC) candidate in the November 16 governorship election in Anambra
State, Senator Chris Ngige, has alleged that there is nothing on
ground to justify the over N2 trillion the Governor Peter Obi
administration has received in the last seven and half years.
Ngige, who spoke in Awka, the Anambra State capital yesterday, said
such huge amount of money received by the state within the period
under review was simply frittered away as there is nothing tangible on
the ground to show for it.
He added that for 34 months, he (Ngige) was in the saddle as governor
of the state and did not receive up to N100 billion, including all
receipts from Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and counter-part
funding.
According to Ngige, the Obi administration has denied ever collecting
such an amount in revenue to the state, yet it has woefully failed to
publish its account for the scrutiny of Anambra people since it came
into being.
"The few things I put in here have vanished. In everything I did in
Anambra State, I did not spend up to N100 billion including all my
receivables from Federation Account and IGR. The Government of Anambra
State as at today has collected up to N2trillion. They are saying it
is a lie, I said publish your account, your IGR, receivables from
counterpart funding from all agencies, world Bank, DFID, UNICEF, WHO.
Publish all account receivables," Ngige said.
He cited the example of 50 percent counterpart funding for building of
classroom blocks for primary and junior secondary schools in the state
in conjunction with Federal Government which he said over N17billion
had been paid before he left office but allegedly, nothing to show
about the project today. "Rather, the Governor Peter Obi Government
has been beating its chest for providing computer sets to schools with
leaking roofs," he said.
Ngige also took a swipe at the health sector in the state, saying it
had collapsed under Peter Obi's administration, also stressing that
the Onitsha General Hospital was the only one that took him 24months
to secure its accreditation as governor, which he said Obi has lost
the accreditation.
He said, there is no other hospital that has been given accreditation
as most of the consultants, doctors, nurses and other health
professionals employed have left, as part from the 13 months strike
embarked upon by doctors in public hospitals in the state.
"Since I left, the government of Obi has not employed nurses apart
from the 350, I employed, " he said, adding that the same thing goes
for teachers who he said were never employed under Obi.
Ngige said the scenario was not different from the tertiary
institutions in Anambra State, especially the state University at Uli,
which he said, he fought to get accreditation for 18 courses but today
has lost accreditation of 20 courses.
"I got professors, I employed them and I was ready to pay and I paid.
You don't make a good soup without paying. Today as we speak, 20 of
those courses have lost accreditation. The 23 percent that has been
done by the Obi administration is not enough. They are trying but
their best is not enough".
Ngige said that all these things do not add up to the Anambra of his
dream, and emphasised that he joined the race to change the fortunes
of the people of the state and lift them out of what he called their
present bondage.