By Chuks Eke
Chief Godwin Ubaka Okeke (MON), a transport magnate and Chairman of GUO Group of Companies has described the recent Sallah broadcast of President Ahmed Bola Tinibu as a step in the right direction.
He said the broadcast which hinged on love and sacrifice would help to revive the present economic quagmire in the country.
Speaking to newsmen in Onitsha, Anambra state at the end of a week-long activities marking his 75th birthday anniversary, Okeke who is also the Chairman of Anambra Motor Manufacturing Company Limited, ANAMCO, Emene, Enugu, Enugu state, said the presidential broadcast was fantastic but needed to be kick-started from president Tinubu himself as the number one citizen of the country.
According to Chief Okeke who has the Chieftaincy title of Onwa of Anaoch Local Government Area and Onwa of Adazi-Ani community in Anaocha Local Government Area of the state,”the president has spoken well and I appreciate his candid advice that Nigerians should imbibe the spirit of love and sacrifice but in my own view, that spirit of love and sacrifice he is preaching should start from him and spread across the national assembly, the Nigerian politicians and all Nigerians who have accounts in foreign banks”.
“In the case of imbibing the spirit of love, I advise that politicians, contractors, civil servants and middlemen should stop looting our treasury in billions and stashing the loots away to foreign countries”.
“Also, in the case of sacrifice, I applaud the House of Representatives for slashing their monthly salaries into two and dedicating 50 percent of it for national development and economic recovery but they should also dedicate 50 percent of their allowances towards national economic recovery because their allowances are by far above their monthly salaries”.
“For all our politicians and contractors who have so much money in foreign bank accounts, if they could return at least 20 percent of what they have their foreign accounts and offer them as free interest loans to the federal government to invest into the economy, then the nation’s economy would bounce back to the path of success because the amount of money Nigerians are having outside the country are by far above the nation’s foreign debts which were are unable to repay”.
He contended that if Nigerians could actually imbibe the spirit of love and sacrifice as demanded by President Tinubu, our politicians, contractors, civil servants and middlemen would not continue to loot, steal and stash away billions of naira into their foreign accounts heartlessly as if the masses are fools, without considering the plight of those poor masses who voted for them during elections and the consequences their actions would have on our economy.
“For now, I wouldn’t like to delve into the issue of fuel subsidy and the revelations between Dangote refinery and the cabals managing our natural resources. This matter is for another day as we watch the scenario unfold itself”, said Okeke.
