Viewers Corner News team would continue to bring to the general public the activities of those Nigerian governors who have decided to take the ways of corruption and deceits instead of using the wealth of their various states nicely to better the lives of those who voted them to office. Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state is one such example and he has succeeded in bringing the state backward with the help of some of the Ebonyi state lawmakers who are his boys and can not tell him when he goes wrong. This is why the people of the state have been subjected to severe economic hardship which is hitting them at the moment. Normally it should not have been so because the population of Ebonyi state is not so big and taken into consideration the huge amount of money the state receives monthly, it should have been more than enough to better the lives of the people of the state which governor David Umahi is unable to do. Now our concern is on the 8.7 billion Naira Paris Loan Exit Refund, a huge amount of money which governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state received since last year from the federal government through Zenith bank but our findings revealed that this 8.7 billion Naira which governor David Umahi received for the state was put into fixed deposit account in a bank instead of using it for the purpose which the refund was meant for. The problem here is that he carried out this operation without letting anyone know about it, the appropriate authorities and the people of Ebonyi state deserve to know about it because democracy is a collective effort. Our findings further revealed that the fixed deposit he (governor David Umahi) made was for his personal gains which is very bad. In Ebonyi state, retired civil servants have not been paid their gratuities and no pension has ever been paid too, there are so much that needed to be done in the state which require lots of money and governor David Umahi has refused to work on those pressing issues instead he allegedly took the state money to a fixed deposit account. Right now all he is doing is to gather huge sum of money in whichever manner he could for his re-election bid in 2019 while people of his state can barely feed properly. Again 35 states in Nigeria (excluding Kano state and the federal capital territory Abuja) benefited from this Paris Loan Exit Refund and most of those states were able to settle some of their outstanding debts or put it in building infrastructures in their various states. Even though it was not sufficient for them as they claimed but at least it went far in solving most of the problems in their states based on the information we got from various states across the country (Nigeria) but governor David Umahi has secretly put the state Paris Loan Exit Refund on fixed deposit in a bank which is very bad. Sincerely when this huge amount of money (8.7 billion Naira) was given to Ebonyi state, it was specified that the money be used to better the lives of the people of Ebonyi state and not to be kept in fixed deposit account in a bank, therefore we are appealing to governor David Umahi to get the money out from the bank and use it for what it was meant for. Our findings showed that all the South East states received their Paris Loan Exit Refund package through Zenith Bank of Nigeria, somehow as long as politics is concerned nothing can ever be hiding from the media. Media will always dig out hidden information and bring it to the knowledge of the people. The public deserve to know the truth just like we did on this governor David Umahi’s issue because the money belong to the people, they voted for you so that you can use the money to better their lives. Another surprising aspect is the sacking of Mr. Sunday Ogbonnaya who was the chairman caretaker committee of Ohaozara local government area by governor David Umahi and he replaced him with Mr. Mark Onu (Chopper) who is known in Ebonyi state to be a very terrible individual. This same man (Mr. Mark Onu) is governor David Umahi’s right hand man, now governor David Umahi has given him (Mark Onu) more powers to do terrible things in the state. He is also the P.D.P youth leader in Ebonyi state and as such, he has engaged the services of some criminals, cultists etc. to ensure that governor David Umahi is re-elected to office in 2019. The people of Ebonyi state are now aware of this development and majority have said that their votes will never go to governor David Umahi because his government brought nothing but hardship to them. Even some criminals he employed as technical assistants in the state are all warming up for 2019 to make sure that their godfather remain in office, these are criminals and the only language they know best is violence but they will surely fail. We are also reminding them that 2019 election will not be like 2015 election when the Ebonyi state people were badly victimized by governor David Umahi and his thugs. Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state is one man who pretends to know more about God’s work which led him to being in close contact with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and this group (Christian Association of Nigeria Ebonyi state chapter) believed in him because of how he presented himself to the organization. We further learned that a cash gift of about 25 million Naira is allegedly given to this group on monthly basis by governor David Umahi and with such huge amount of money coming as a gift to the organization, everything governor David Umahi says or do is fine with them. We are appealing to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Ebonyi state chapter to kindly do what is right and be on the side of truth as always. Look at Ebonyi state drinking water is hard to come by these days, normally this huge amount of money being wasted carelessly and recklessly would have been more than enough to give the state good drinking water which governor David Umahi has failed to do. The only thing we observed he did in Ebonyi state during our working tour was that he made a borehole for fountains in the state.
Now of what importance are those fountains when people of the state can not get good water to drink? What we (Viewers Corner News team) expected governor David Umahi to have done was as he was digging borehole for fountains, he should also create provision for the people of Ebonyi state to have a clean drinking water instead of wasting it only on fountain, this does not make any sense to us. The people you are leading should come first and not fountain. Honestly with governor David Umahi’s lack of leadership capability which has brought Ebonyi state backward, majority of the people we (Viewers Corner News team) spoke to during our recent visit in Ebonyi state made it clear to us that they are fed up with governor David Umahi’s leadership and would want a change which is very necessary. They also confirmed to our team that governor David Umahi will not win the next election (2019) no matter the intimidation because of the way he is handling the affairs of Ebonyi state.
Source: Viewers Corner News, Germany.