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Chairman of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, in Enugu State, Chukwuma Igbokwe, has accused governors of the Southeast region of being too lazy and over dependent on federal allocation.
Igbokwe said the governors were not willing to harness natural resources in their states to generate additional revenue.
The TUC chairman was speaking in an interview with PUNCH newspaper in Enugu, where he noted that the impact of the decline of the country’s oil revenue would not have been severe in the Southeast states if successive administrations since 1999 had not abandoned large-scale agricultural enterprises established during the first and second republics.
According to the labour leader, “The problem with the South-East is over-reliance on federal allocation by the state governors.
“Since 1999, the governors have been lazy; no attempt was made to harness abundant and viable natural resources available for revenue generation and development.
“The palm oil and cashew plantations, rice farms, poultries and similar ventures that were established across the South-East at industrial scale during the first and second republics are wasting away. They have all been abandoned”.
“They can still be revived but the governors are not thinking about that, they only think of the monthly federal allocation.”
He said the reports that Anambra State had been given a waiver to export scent leaves was a welcome development.
Igbokwe said the governors were not willing to harness natural resources in their states to generate additional revenue.
The TUC chairman was speaking in an interview with PUNCH newspaper in Enugu, where he noted that the impact of the decline of the country’s oil revenue would not have been severe in the Southeast states if successive administrations since 1999 had not abandoned large-scale agricultural enterprises established during the first and second republics.
According to the labour leader, “The problem with the South-East is over-reliance on federal allocation by the state governors.
“Since 1999, the governors have been lazy; no attempt was made to harness abundant and viable natural resources available for revenue generation and development.
“The palm oil and cashew plantations, rice farms, poultries and similar ventures that were established across the South-East at industrial scale during the first and second republics are wasting away. They have all been abandoned”.
“They can still be revived but the governors are not thinking about that, they only think of the monthly federal allocation.”
He said the reports that Anambra State had been given a waiver to export scent leaves was a welcome development.
