Soldiers earn peanuts, APC youth leader flaunts billion-naira SUVs — Utomi.
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Professor Pat Utomi has criticised the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the distribution of luxury sport utility vehicles (SUVs) to selected youth leaders, contrasting the expenditure with what he described as poor salaries paid to Nigerian soldiers.
Utomi, a chieftain of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), said it was troubling that an APC youth leader could display expensive vehicles at a time Nigerians had been told that government funds were limited.
In a post on X on Sunday, Utomi wrote: “Nigerian soldiers are being paid peanuts as salaries, yet an APC youth leader is flaunting SUVs worth billions of naira. This is the same government that told Nigerians there was no longer money in the treasury. At this point, they must think we are fools!” In another post, the professor questioned whether the money spent on the vehicles could have been put to better use, particularly in the health sector. “Each of the SUVs in this video costs more than ₦100 million.
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