ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- A former National Vice Chairman, North-West, of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Salihu Lukman has questioned the N15 trillion Lagos-Calabar coastal road project, by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
According to Lukman, the government should have channeled the money into more pressing issues like education among others, rather than using it for road project.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, he said that the ruling APC has poorly managed some of its social investment programmes.
He said we’re now struggling to manage the issue of corruption under President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
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Adding that currently, the situation is at a standstill since the minister, Betta Edu of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, has been suspended, he said all social investment programs seem to be on hold.
“But when you look at some of the key decisions taken by this government, one of which is the Lagos Calabar coastal highway – you look at the amount of money, we are talking of N15 trillion, that is going to go – you ask yourself, given the challenges facing this country, is that the right priority?
“Imagine you invest N15 trillion in equipping our armed forces and trying to recover all the ungoverned spaces in the country. Imagine you invest that in terms of providing classroom blocks and recruiting teachers,” he said.
He stated that with the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria increasing, the authorities should go beyond talking and start taking action.
On the current affairs show, the APC chieftain said, “You know, now we talk about this statistic of 10 million out-of-school children but we do nothing.
“If, for instance, we are now going to mop up the state of some of these classes, you check online, you see certainly there is anything but class classroom.
“In many of our schools, you see a school with more than 500 pupils with only one teacher.”