Ngige Accuses Some State Governors of Pocketing Security Votes

Former Labor Minister, Senator Chris Ngige, has accused some state governors of mishandling the security votes allocated to their offices.

He blames the alleged practice for the spate of insecurity ravaging the country.

Ngige made the accusation, during a chat with newsmen on the sideline of the Ojota Ofala Festival in the Idemili South Local Government Areas of Anambra State.

The former Anambra state governor said some of the state governors regards the security votes as pocket money.

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He explained that security votes being collected by the state governors are for stabilizing security issues in their respective.

Security is like information, publicity, when you are spending money on publicity, you won’t see it, it is not tangible, but you will see the effect. If you put stability in your security, you will see prosperity following it, because there will be economic activities.

Insecurity has made economic activities to be destabilised in the South-East zone in the past 18 months, coupled with the sit-at-home; and all these activities by non-state actors who hide under the camouflage of Nnamdi Kanu to perpetrate criminality.

Ngige gave a pass mark to Soludo, saying, Our governor in Anambra is trying. He has infrastructural challenge, like construction of roads, but I will advise him to also focus on maintenance culture, just like prevention in medicine.

If you prevent a disease, you don’t spend much money, as you would do in curing the disease. If you maintain the roads, they will last another 10 years. The ones I constructed when I was governor 20 years ago are still serving the people.