Insensitive to spend N110m on Falconets while healthcare suffers – APC tackles Makinde
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Oyo State, has described the plan by the state government to spend one hundred and ten million naira on a football match between Nigeria and Rwanda as insensitive.
The APC condemned the move by the Makinde administration to bankroll the international soccer match between the Nigeria’s Under 20 female team and their Rwandan counterparts with N110 million, describing it as misplaced priority.
The party made the claims in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Wasiu Olawale Sadare.
The statement was made available to DAILY POST on Monday.
Sadare in the statement, claimed that the health sector in the state is in a sorry state due to poor funding.
He lamented that the money meant to be spent on the football match should be used to improve healthcare services in the state.
He added that X-ray machines and ambulances are a luxury in most of the hospitals in the state.
Sadare maintained that qualified personnel are quitting the service of the state government in droves on a daily basis due to negligence and high-handedness.
He said, “It is a height of insensitivity on the part of a government that cannot value the life of its citizens to prioritize spending on a soccer project which belongs to the federal government.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the qualifiers match between the Nigerian Under 20 girls and their Rwandan counterparts had been put in the year 2025 budget of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, through its parent body- Nigerian Sports Commission (NSC) and there are no reports that either the NFF or FG asked Gov Makinde to help them out in hosting the match.
“As a matter of fact, the emergency decision of the Oyo State government to attract the match to the low quality Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan raised a lot of questions which begs for answers. The decision was hurriedly backed up with a budget of N110 million which has been removed from the state treasury immediately.
“Worse still, X-ray machines and ambulances are luxury in most of these hospitals while qualified personnel quit the service of the state government in droves on daily basis due to negligence and high-handedness on the part of the Makinde administration”.
