Governor Charles Soludo has said that Anambra state government was spending N137 million per month on cleaning until recently, when the new government took quick steps to dramatically reduce cleaning costs.
“We need to be sensitive and move with the times. We need to live within the average of the people we’re governing and knock off the wastes and irrelevances,” stated Mr Soludo.
The governor of Anambra stated this while briefing State House media at the conclusion of the National Economic Council meeting, which was presided over by Vice-President Kashim Shettima on Thursday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
He claimed that when he took office, cleaning up governmental offices, among other things, cost roughly N137 million every month.
“Today, in Anambra, we’re doing N11 million a month from N137 million. This is just an illustration. And it’s a thing that we’re persuading each and every one of us to look into, check into our books and look ourselves in the mirror and move with the times,” Mr Soludo explained.
Concerning the difficulty caused by the loss of the petrol subsidy and the subsequent increase in pump prices, the governor of Anambra stated that the council investigated the option of negotiating a new minimum wage through the right channels.
In a connected development, Governor Dapo Abiodun said the NEC meeting was “engaging and robust discussion today and it centred around the steps that we should take as a country towards cushioning the effects of subsidy removal and the unification of the naira.”
Mr Abiodun explained that “we also proposed accordingly that each state should begin to plan toward implementing a cash transfer programme that will be based on a social register in the states because the states are better positioned to do the enumeration to ensure the integrity of the social register.”
