ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – The Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, says that he has not taken any salary from the state since two years he assumed office as governor.
Soludo, the former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), also disclosed that his wife does not have an official car as the first lady of Anambra State but still drives his personal cars.
He made the claims during the celebration of two years anniversary of his administration at the International Convention Center, Awka, the state capital on Sunday.
Soludo stated that he is deliberately executing the most austere measure government ever by cutting costs and not borrowing for the last two years.
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“Any governor that comes floods you with offers for borrowing and so on and so forth, but we decided for the first two years to demonstrate something, capacity to do more with less.
“And so far as has been said, for two years, despite receiving about 25 per cent in real terms or in dollar terms of what was in the past, we have chosen deliberately not to borrow.
“I have been asked severally; ‘how do you do without borrowing and with the difficult circumstances?’ And my answer is that we are doing so because we are executing the most austere measure government ever.
“As I speak to you, I am not taking any salary, I am not paid any salary by Anambra State government. Even the First Lady of Anambra don’t have any official car, she still drives my personal vehicles,” Soludo said.
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The celebration of the two years anniversary of Soludo’s administration was marked with the Pontifical Mass of Thanksgiving led by the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Nnewi, Most Rev. Jonas-Benson Okoye and the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Awka, Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor.