The Federal Government has rebuffed
request by some of the delegates to the ongoing national conference that
their personal aides be paid by the government.
Each of the delegates are to receive N12m for the three months exercise.
The allowance include money for
accommodation, transportation, part of feeding (the delegates are to
have free lunch at the venue of the conference.
However, the delegates are expected to
have aides such as drivers and personal assistants in order to ease
their works and movements.
However, investigations by one of our
correspondents showed that some of the delegates met in Abuja on Monday
shortly after the inauguration of the conference by President Goodluck
Jonathan where the welfare of their aides was discussed.
The delegates, it was gathered, wanted the Federal Government to take over the allowances of their aides.
While some of them at the informal
meeting said that the issue be raised during plenary, thinking that the
N12m was meant for them and not their aides, a few of them were said to
have disagreed.
One of the delegates, who was at the
meeting, confided in our correspondent that the organisers of the
conference ought to inform them about the number of aides they were to
employ and who would be responsible for their salaries.
Another delegate was said to have given
an example of the members of the National Assembly whose aides he said,
were being paid by the Federal Government.
“This does not affect the salaries and allowances of these lawmakers,” one of the delegates argued.
At the inaugural sitting on Tuesday, a
delegate from Jigawa State, Senator Mohammed Jibrin, asked the
leadership of the conference to tell the delegates the number of aides
each of them were expected to have.
“We need to know the number of aides we are to employ,” he demanded.
Another delegate, a lady also asked the
management of the conference who was going to be responsible for the
welfare of their aides.
In her response, the Conference Secretary, Mrs. Valeria Azinge, said there was no provision for personal aides of the delegates.
She informed the delegates that the
Federal Government had monetised their accommodation, transportation
and sitting allowances.
“You will all receive your pay slips in
two weeks intervals and we won’t disclose what is paid to you in the
open. Each and every one of you is however free to divulge it, but that
will not come from us,” Azinge said.
18-year-old
Godwin Awogbo, a 300 level student of University of Cape Coast in
Central region, Ghana, studying Social Science was brutally killed. His
body had been found with some his internal organs gorged out, with his
hands and legs tied.
His Father Mr Fred Awogbo whose eyes were swollen, obviously due to prolonged crying, expressed many regrets as regards why he had not listened to his late son’s proprietor who had suggested that he should send his son to Canada to further his studies or better still, allow his son to weather the storm of strike actions often associated with Nigerian universities than losing him in Ghana to the cold hands of death, where he thought he was safe and he would not lose him to strange culture.
The bereaved father revealed that his son's room-mate borrowed $4500 from him and killed him when he asked for the money..He said..
- See more at: http://www.gosippme.com/2014/03/nigerian-undergraduate-18-yr-old.html#.UyldDFctw1k
His Father Mr Fred Awogbo whose eyes were swollen, obviously due to prolonged crying, expressed many regrets as regards why he had not listened to his late son’s proprietor who had suggested that he should send his son to Canada to further his studies or better still, allow his son to weather the storm of strike actions often associated with Nigerian universities than losing him in Ghana to the cold hands of death, where he thought he was safe and he would not lose him to strange culture.
The bereaved father revealed that his son's room-mate borrowed $4500 from him and killed him when he asked for the money..He said..
- See more at: http://www.gosippme.com/2014/03/nigerian-undergraduate-18-yr-old.html#.UyldDFctw1k
18-year-old
Godwin Awogbo, a 300 level student of University of Cape Coast in
Central region, Ghana, studying Social Science was brutally killed. His
body had been found with some his internal organs gorged out, with his
hands and legs tied.
His Father Mr Fred Awogbo whose eyes were swollen, obviously due to prolonged crying, expressed many regrets as regards why he had not listened to his late son’s proprietor who had suggested that he should send his son to Canada to further his studies or better still, allow his son to weather the storm of strike actions often associated with Nigerian universities than losing him in Ghana to the cold hands of death, where he thought he was safe and he would not lose him to strange culture.
The bereaved father revealed that his son's room-mate borrowed $4500 from him and killed him when he asked for the money..He said..
- See more at: http://www.gosippme.com/2014/03/nigerian-undergraduate-18-yr-old.html#.UyldDFctw1k
His Father Mr Fred Awogbo whose eyes were swollen, obviously due to prolonged crying, expressed many regrets as regards why he had not listened to his late son’s proprietor who had suggested that he should send his son to Canada to further his studies or better still, allow his son to weather the storm of strike actions often associated with Nigerian universities than losing him in Ghana to the cold hands of death, where he thought he was safe and he would not lose him to strange culture.
The bereaved father revealed that his son's room-mate borrowed $4500 from him and killed him when he asked for the money..He said..
- See more at: http://www.gosippme.com/2014/03/nigerian-undergraduate-18-yr-old.html#.UyldDFctw1k
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