Nigeria is a country of many wonders, a country with many surprises and mysteries. It is a country where the saint becomes the sinner and the sinner becomes the saint all at the same time but for what Ahmed Idris did was never a surprising thing to all academic unions of tertiary institutions.
Academic unions of tertiary institutions have suffered in the hands of Ahmed Idris to the level of making many like church rats.
ASUP learnt just a few days before his arrest that the minimum wage arrears schedule did not even get to his table for the final process of payment until when he was bundled.
If ASUU is just demanding for N40 billion for Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) to settle its financial demands and ASUP is demanding for N15 Billion Naira revitalization funds much will remain to improvise and flourish the academic sector of Nigeria but rather the Federal Government of Nigeria is always giving excuses at the academic unions of Nigeria that there is no money to settle their demands.
If there is no money, where did Ahmed Idris get the N80 billion he squandered? And where did the Ex-Niger Delta Development Commission get the N47 billion naira he siphoned from the Niger Delta treasury?
And where did the former Anambra State governor get the N37 billion naira he embezzled as proved by EFCC and to ask where all corrupt Nigerians got the money they stole and where Nigeria gets its money to settle the workers in juicy organizations before the end of the month while academic staff received their peanut salaries late?
Nigeria’s corruption index of 2021 ranked the country 154th in the 180 countries and every day top Nigerian civil servants are in the top gear of it.
It is now a lesson for the wise and for Anamekwe Nwabuoku who was appointed by President Muhammad Buhari to oversee the office of the Accountant General pending his investigation.
Anamekwe Nwabuoku who is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN); a Fellow, of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria(CITN) and a member of the Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM) has lots of experience to manage the office of the accountant general and to operate for the satisfaction of all subjects.
Among some of the positions, he held include Director (Finance & Accounts), Ministry of Defence, HQ, Abuja from May 2019 to March 2021. He is currently the director, of the Inspectorate Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation presently overseeing the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, there is no doubt he will discharge fine services to lock all potholes of corruption.
Anamekwe Nwabuoku can make all government workers to love him and pray for him if he never tells the Federal Government that there is no money in the treasury as it used to happen. All Nigerian workers expect equal treatment in salary disbursement before the IPPIS system which when luring staff they were told salaries will be paid on the same day, the same time and on every 25th of every month.
At this time that you assumed the office of the Accountant General in the acting capacity, we hope that you will be in the history of the book of ASUP and ASUU archives to resolve their financial demands as we have started seeing good days in your days.
Academic unions of ASUU and ASUP staff believed that the payment of their arrears happened because of you and we all expect to see these good things in making Nigerian educationists happy by giving them their own benefits. My prayers remain with you in good work for all and with food future.
By Auwal Ahmed Ibrahim (Goronyo) – For 9News Nigeria
