By Frederick Odorige
ME:
- They may be evacuated from neighboring countries such as Romania (capital city of Bucharest), Hungary (Capital city of Budapest) or Poland (capital city of Warsaw)
- The highest estimate of Nigerians in Ukraine is 4,000 ( who keeps the money of the extra 1,000 persons?)
- Some persons have returned to Nigeria on their personal expenses. Others are staying back in Hungary, Poland and Romania waiting for situation to normalize. Some of the non-students are moving on to Austria and Germany and may not return. The budget for 5,000 is inexplicable.
- At $8.5m for 5,000 persons, it means that the average cost of flight is $1,7000 per passenger.
- Qatar Airways’ round trip from Bucharest to Lagos is $688
- Turkish Air, round trip from Budapest to Lagos is $637.
- KLM round trip from Warsaw to Lagos is $680
- Let us assume blindly that with miscellaneous expenses, a flight will cost an average of $750.
- Let us also assume, even more blindly, that 4,000 compatriots will be evacuated. 4,000 X $750 = $3million.
$8.5m – $3m = $5.5m. This explains why Nigeria is referred to as the poverty capital of the world.
10. Conclusion: The tension is less because many are already in safe countries.
Now, why is the cost of every project in Nigeria heavily inflated?
Why is every pain always turned into private gains for a few?
Will the differences be returned or pocketed?
Still on international travels, recall that in 2020, there was global lockdown and restrictions on air travel. President Buhari and VP Osinbajo remained in Nigeria.
N2.5bn had been previously budgeted for their local and international travels in 2020. No publishes record has shown that unspent money was refunded. In the 2021 budget, another N2.426bn was freshly budgeted for their travels!
Meaning that the money for 2020 entered voice mail?
Is this the country that is borrowing to finance her budgets with many families struggling to feed once a day? The same country where ASUU is on strike and fuel scarcity is biting hard? The same country where at least 15 million children are on the streets?
Is this the same country where so much money had been budgeted and inflated for security, while our soldiers and civilians continue to die?
I wait for answers!
Meanwhile, I am sending my analysis on behalf of the Global Coalition for Security and Democracy in Nigeria, GCSDN, to the Auditor-General of Nigeria, the very meticulous and patriotic Mr Adolphus Arhotomhenia Aghughu.
We all see but look differently.
@Frederick Odorige.
Twitter:@FOdorige
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