DAVID WEST CONDEMNS JUMBO ALLOWANCES FOR DELEGATES AT JONATHANs CONFERENCE. A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Prof. Tam David-West, has faulted the ‘jumbo pay’ offered delegates to the national conference, their acceptance of the offer as well as the huge population of the delegates. David-West, who spoke in Ibadan, described the conference as a village. He expressed disappointment in both the government and the delegates for offering and accepting the huge amount of financial rewards, despite the economic crunch confronting the nation. The former minister said it was disturbing that President Goodluck Jonathan could offer each delegate N30,000 as feeding allowance per day when his administration can not pay workers N18,000 minimum wage. A disappointed David-West said: “At last, President Jonathan has inaugurated the jamboree of 492 Nigerians for his so-called national conference. Like a number of Nigerians, I am not enthusiastic about the outcome of the Abuja jamboree. I am not only skeptical; I am cynical about the whole charade. “Why 492 people? It is like a village. What is even more obscene and disturbing is that each one of them will have N30,000 for food per day in a country where the government cannot pay N18,000 minimum wage per month. Now, it is giving N30,000 per day to selected Nigerians. In addition, they have N4 million each as housing allowance per month. Government has not faulted these figures
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:33:31 +0000