Peter Obi, LP Presidential Candidate 2023, has described Nigeria’s contingent at the ongoing COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, totaled 1411, as a waste of public fund.
Obi, on his social media handle, X, said : ” the vast majority of those in the Nigerian delegation to COP28 are either non relevant civil servants or relations, friends and hangers-on of high government officials.
Most of them hardly understand or have anything to do with Climate Change.
This huge contingent is out at public expense at a time when most Nigerians can hardly afford food and basic needs as a result of economic hardship.
” As we have kept emphasizing, we must stop waste as a a tradition of our government and nation.
We urgently need to cut the cost of governance and invest in production.
” We need to de-emphasize unnecessary ceremony and showmanship as a mode of government behaviour. We need to tie spending to necessity and national priority,” he said.
