The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL)
has reacted to reports that the Federal
Government plans to pay each of the 492
delegates to the national conference slated to
begin on Monday, a princely sum of N4 million
monthly, throughout the three-month duration
of the exercise.
The amount, according to CACOL Director, Mr.
Debo Adeniran, was too much, adding tha each
group should sponsor its delegates to the
conference.
Adeniran said CACOL was opposed to
government spending N7bn on the conference.
He said, “The hosting of the conference itself
is too expensive than it is supposed to be.
They have budgeted about N7bn, and if each
delegate will be paid up to N4m per month, that
accentuates the profligacy going on in the
National Assembly, where members who are
doing part-time jobs are taking more than full-
time salary.
“Every section of the society that sends a
delegate should have been asked to fund their
delegates. It is not supposed to be a money-
making venture to the extent that bribery and
corruption will now pervade the atmosphere”.
Adeniran argued that monetizing the
conference would make the delegates
compromise the stand of their people for the
stand of the authority paying them.
However, the Executive Director of the Civil
Liberties Organisation, Mr. Ibuchukwu Ezike,
who is also a delegate to the confab, called for
restraint because the purported amount to be
paid to delegates was still within the realm of
speculation.
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