Viewers Corner News team wrote articles in the past concerning how governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state is neglecting the educational sector of his state, now it has become worse based on our findings. Governor David Umahi refused to take the footsteps of his predecessors who treated education as one of the best ways to take the people of Ebonyi state out of hardship and poverty. Now hear this, a fund was given to Ebonyi State University by Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to assist in building cancer centre and other structures in the university. This money based on our findings is a federal government money (Tertiary Education Trust Fund) to put things right in Ebonyi state university but governor David Umahi made it look as if the money came from Ebonyi state purse, so that he can channel it to whichever area he deems fit instead of using it for the purpose it was meant for.
Again, the Ebonyi State University based on what we know used to be one of the best state universities in Nigeria before governor David Umahi came to power but now, he has reduced the university to nothing. Salaries of lecturers are not paid, he is owing Ebonyi state university lecturers. After slashing 20 percent of the lecturers’ salaries, still governor David Umahi is owing them up to five months. The worst aspect of it all is that instead of using the fund he received from TETFund to equip the Ebonyi state university to a good standard, he came up with setting up additional three universities in the state which in our opinion is laughable. Governor David Umahi forcefully took the land of some people in Ebonyi state as a result of this irresponsible quest to build additional three Universities in Ebonyi state as alleged. He named one of the three universities “King David’s Medical Sciences University. Another surprising and sad thing is that those at the Ebonyi state House of Assembly who majority are governor David Umahi’s boys are supporting him, probably because of what they would take home as their own personal gains, leaving majority of the people of Ebonyi state who made them become leaders to suffer an unending hardship and poverty which is bad. This same group of Ebonyi state corrupt lawmakers who are the “YES YES” type of individuals have decided instead of calling one of those proposed universities “king David’s Medical Sciences University, they named it David Umahi University of Medical Sciences Ebonyi State. This has already passed first and second reading in Ebonyi state House of Assembly, making governor David Umahi and majority of those lawmakers in the state as individuals without leadership capabilities. They are very corrupt and incompetent group of people who came to office for their own personal gains. Instead of reducing burden of education in the state, governor David Umahi is continually taxing parents to pay both levy and fees into a state coffer. Governor David Umahi who can not maintain one university in his state is building three additional universities in Ebonyi state, what a confused governor. This same governor David Umahi was allegedly accused of abusing local government funds which is bad. In Ebonyi state, there are about 13 flyovers built by governor David Umahi which are not needed but he constructed those flyovers as a means to corruptly enrich himself and his associates because the projects would be paid by the federal government of Nigeria as alleged. Viewers Corner News team would use this opportunity to inform governor David Umahi that those flyovers he built which are not necessary, taking into consideration how small Ebonyi state is should have been channelled towards creating employment for the people of Ebonyi state. The state is small, so building such projects like flyovers everywhere in Ebonyi state is an economic waste. Flyovers are mostly built in congested areas to ease traffics. Governor David Umahi has less than two years to stay in office, hopefully the people of Ebonyi state would get it right this time by electing into office a leader who would get things done the right way by improving on the welfare and living standard of the people of Ebonyi state.
Source: Viewers Corner News.