The claim that the Presidency has spent about N1 billion on the late former Vice President Alex Ekwueme since he fell ill and died eventually is questionable.
Anglican Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Archbishop Emmanuel Chukwuma, made this condemnation during a commendation service for the deceased in Enugu.
Speaking, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, had said that the Presidency had spent about N1 billion on the late vice president.
But speaking at one of the burial programmes for Ekwueme, Archbishop Chukwuma, requested that the government should give account of how it spent such a whopping amount.
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According to him, the government should show some sense of accountability.
His words: “Ekwueme, being a man of accountability, the Federal Government must give account on how the N1 billion was spent.
“We are happy that the government is giving him a befitting burial, but one thing is that people should emulate the legacies he left behind.
“It is not good to say all sorts of things without emulating the legacies he left behind.”
