Obi donates to Chibok Girls Secondary School…Says N39b ICC’s renovations, a misplacement of priorities

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By TANKO ALI

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last general election, Peter Obi, has condemned the misplacement of priorities by the government to favour the rich while the poor are dying in droves.

Obi, who spoke in Abuja while announcing the facilitation of three projects, to the tune of N6 m plus some computers in Girls Secondary school, Chibok, Borno state, noted that anything done to promote education is ñot donation but investment.

He berated the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) for spending N39 billion on the renovation of the International Conference Centre that was named after President Bola Tinubu in a place where people are dying of not having basic things like food, education and healthcare.

Obi described the renovation of the conference as a wasteful venture, urged the federal government to always invest in ventures like education that would be profitable to the youth in future.

The former Anambra State governor donated the sum of N6 million for the sinking of a borehole, provision of solar and a laboratory in the secondary school where school girls were kidnapped in 2014 by the Boko Haram terrorist group.

“FCTA could afford to claim that it renovated a