A chieftain of the Labour Party, LP, Kenneth Okonkwo, has
slammed President Bola Tinubu’s administration for nominating 47 persons for
ministerial appointments.
Okonkwo wondered why the administration considered setting
up what he described as ‘the most bloated bureaucracy in the world’ when
according to him, the nation is heading towards being the poorest country in
the world.
The Nollywood veteran actor’s assertion was contained in a
post via his Twitter handle on Thursday.
He claimed that the constitution allows only 37 ministers
and not 47.
“What a regime? We are heading towards being the poorest
country in the world, and this regime is considering setting up the most
bloated bureaucracy in the world, which will lead to the highest cost of
governance in the world. 47 Ministers when the government is only compelled to
have 37.
“The money to be used to pay them will eventually be
extorted from Nigerians through inordinate taxing and over-pricing of essential
commodities and borrowing from outside sources because APC regimes produce
nothing. I pity Nigerians under this clueless regime,” he tweeted.
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