Viewers Corner News and the advisory team would continue to report, analyze and guide the people of Ebonyi state most especially when their rights are being manipulated and not being treated fairly. If we look at Ebonyi state today, there is nothing much to be happy about when compared to some states in the country (Nigeria).
In terms of investments nothing has come into the state, the reason is that when a wrong leader is elected as the governor of the state, things generally can never move forward just like we have seen today in Ebonyi state. Governor David Umahi and his brothers including some of his close associates are running the state like their own private businesses and enjoying all the benefits that would have been used to better the lives of all the people of Ebonyi state. Normally such a young state is not supposed to lack anything if managed by a sincere leader taken into consideration the federal government allocation and the internally generated revenues which runs into billions of Naira but governor David Umahi is not using it properly. Recently he increased the tenement fee which the landlords in Ebonyi state are going to be paying, if you own a building of six flats, the fee is 108,000 per year, Duplex is 60,000 per year, Bungalow is 48,000 per year. Now this sort of tax would at the end be passed on to the tenants who are struggling to feed their families, this is a state where one hardly finds job to do and with this tax system, it would create more hardship to the people of the state. Again this tenement rate is different from the environmental rate being collected in the state and this tenement fee should have been the responsibility of the local government but David Umahi and his government has taken it upon themselves to collect them. Honestly this man (David Umahi) has messed up a whole lot of things in the state, he is a confused man and do not know what to do at this point.
Recently he suspended the commissioner for Local governments and Chieftaincy affairs (Chief Barrister Samuel Okoronkwo) indefinitely, he accused him of not being fair in the way and manner he handled the allocation of the youths empowerment programs in Ebonyi state. David Umahi said that the commissioner (Chief Samuel Okoronkwo) favoured Ebonyi south senatorial zone more than other zones (Ebonyi North and Ebonyi central) in the state, that he should have shared the programs equally. Viewers Corner News team discovered that governor David Umahi suspended the man so that the people of Ebonyi state would think that their governor is doing a good job but far from it, we have studied governor David Umahi’s system properly and we discovered that he is among the governors in Nigeria that has failed to create better conditions for the people of his state despite the internally generated revenue and federal allocations he collects monthly. Again he created a direct labour system in the state which his two brothers Mr. Augustine Umahi and Mr Maxwell Umahi are the major people doing all the contracts in Ebonyi state using this fake direct labour system as a cover up, this is terrible. This fake direct labour system created by governor David Umahi is just to loot the state’s funds while other contractors in the state are left to suffer, this is not right. David Umahi claims that he is a saint who has created equal opportunities for everyone in his state but these are all lies, he does not practise what he preach in the state. The few contracts including supplies of various materials (cements, cables, rods etc.) he was able to award went to his brothers through his terrible direct labour system which is not fair at all. Now all the major positions in Peoples Democratic Party (South East zone and Ebonyi state chapter), governor David Umahi has installed his family members to head the political party (P.D.P). Mr. Augustine Umahi is the chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (South East) while Mr Maxwell Umahi is the deputy chairman of Peoples Democratic Party in Ebonyi state. These two men were recently arrested by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission for corruption related offences as alleged.
Why would governor David Umahi run the state (Ebonyi) like his own private company, this is not right. The sad aspect of it all is that the tax system imposed on the people of the state who are trying very hard to feed their families is troubling, honestly as a governor, what David Umahi should have done is to create opportunities that would attract investors in the state instead of taxing people who do not have the money to pay. He should also take example from some states in Nigeria that are doing nicely in terms of good governance, please review your tax policies and see if you could make some cuts that would bring relief to the people of Ebonyi state because the hardship they are passing through is too much.
Source: Viewers Corner News.