Blue3k:


1. I don't care what state you're from. If you don't want better that's fine. Inflate and loot away its your tax money.

2. You reason like a child because some else like buhari does something dumb you say it OK for next guy. You will jump off a cliff with that mentality.

3. Even if 13 million won't settle everyone it helps some. If you owe pensioners cash that should be your priority not well paid footballers doing their jobs. Buhari can hand them bonuses.

3b. They can give the money to local charity or foundation if they please. Personally I wouldn't gripe at that.

4. Akwa Ibom owes pensioners 5 yrs worth pensions and gratuity. The grand total is about 2 billion.

5. They money was likely public funds just like any other supposed generosity.

yaki84:

how long has udom been in the saddle?
Udom represents akwaibom state government he isnt akwaibom state govt.
[s]I dont sympathise with the pensioners cause most of them r crazy thieves. A situation a civi servants establish ghost schools, employs ghost teachers n injecy it in the state payroll thereby inflating the state wage bill. Its karma getting back at them. A civil servant that sends his or her kids toghana to school? Civil servants showed the politicians how to be corrupt, so if the politicians r practicing the proces on them , i CARE LESS.[/s]

Ironically, two years after the state government owned Akwa United Football Club won the 2015 FA Cup, Governor Udom Emmanuel is yet to fulfill his promise to give each of the 34 registered players of the local club N2 million and a house.

Blue3k:


Udom inherited the issue from previous administration so what. He's the chief executive of the state so it's his responsibility to see to the matter. He knew about these issues in 2015 and was close to Akpabio for some time.

Guy I don't care about your lame commentary about pensioners. You asked me who Akwa Ibom owes I told you. Don't now tell me you don't care. They were promised their money and owed. Everything you mentioned should have been settled before hand.

Do you also think Udom was handing out money to Akwa United from his pocket? He made proses to them aswell. Why should he be dashing people not under his employment when he owes his own workers.

yaki84:

why r his own workers not hitting the streets of uyo protesting? [s]Abi they choosed u n inibehe effiong to do it n sen ita enang had to transfer 20million to inibehe's account to assist in the logistics too?[/s]
[s]Do civil servants work at all in any states that warrant payment??
Monies that even the past admin failed to acknowledge una go come shout as if ur papa is being owed. Is ur dad one of the 1991 set of retirees being owed? [/s]

richidinho:


Bro! Save your strength, don't just mind them, a state that hardly welcome up to 500 visitors in a month before Akpabio's era, they have forgotten that there was a Governor before Akpabio

Inibeghe or whatever is his name shld get ready to contest as governor in 2019 let's see how popular he is, nonsense!

Udom has 8yrs to govern the state, we are not disappointed in him, he is doing very well

Blue3k:


Source: http://opinion.premiumtimesng.com/2017/09/02/the-opportunity-cost-of-the-godswill-akpabio-international-stadium-by-inibehe-effiong/

Front Page: Lalasticlala

It was designed to be a 30,000 seater ultra modern MULTI-PURPOSE sports complex, modelled after Allianz Arena, a football stadium in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, with a 75,000 seating capacity.

Edesinpayan:
The stadium was built with 96 million dollars, OP take note. You are being political here....

Ehiscotch:
250 million dollars is freaking inflated. The governor ought to account for such a poorly equipped and improperly structured stadium. He ought to know that building a stadium in Nigeria doesn't generate enough revenue to cater for both the funds used in building the stadium(Capital) and the recurrent expenditure that will be incured in maintenaning the stadium in every year's budget. Where were his heavily and handsomely paid special advisers when you need them? The governor in my take was in too much a hurry to erect a monument that'd be named after himself and his half brained advisors or himself thought this up as a best way to do so.

omohayek:
A fantastic critique of a huge waste of money. It's too bad hardly any Nigerians - even the "educated" ones - understand the concepts of "opportunity cost" or return on investment. So much spending on projects in Nigeria is done simply because the ideas sound good, without any hard thought put into how much financial sense the proposals actually make. Of course, the politicians making the decisions are probably too busy thinking about how the contracts can be padded to steal as much as possible, but here my focus is on all the ordinary Nigerians who never stop to ask about whether there are better uses to which public money could be put.

RZArecta:
Whatever, thank God the stadium is there. If you don't like it, make a rope useful to your neck. Teslim Balogun stadium is just across the road from the National stadium in surulere yet nobody brought out four figure tables to calculate anything. It's been usually people from Ogbomosho and ijebu who have been complaining about this stadium, they even complained about why Bayelsa needed over head bridge but no effort on infrastructural development is questioned in their region even when a governor used over 78 million to set up a website abi na how many million to dig ordinary borehole. They even complained about maritime university in Delta state, why should I complain about what contributed in putting my own region on the world map ?

Newmanluckyman:
...I really understand the OP concerns which to me makes economic and logical sense. In Africa we build to impress and not to economic usage.

The truth is that the opportunity cost of building this white elephant stadium project and the $250M cost price could have been used to industrialized most local areas of the state. A state that can't boost of good local roads, good infrastructure, has sizable number of people living below the poverty level ,unemployment, poor health system opting to embark on such a project for me is a TRAGEDY OF ECONOMIC MISPLACED PRIORITY. It's obvious that the then governor was anxious to immortalized his name on a big white elephant project like that hence the decision to use this stadium was carefully placed on the chopping knife.

fratermathy:


@Boldened: Are you sure you are referring to Akwa Ibom State or some other State?

richidinho:


Bro! Save your strength, don't just mind them, a state that hardly welcome up to 500 visitors in a month before Akpabio's era, they have forgotten that there was a Governor before Akpabio

Inibeghe or whatever is his name shld get ready to contest as governor in 2019 let's see how popular he is, nonsense!

Udom has 8yrs to govern the state, we are not disappointed in him, he is doing very well