Citizens criticise Nigerian agencies’ junket to Dubai to sign MoU
Nigerians have criticised two agencies of the federal government, whose heads chose Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to announce a partnership meant to be executed back home.
The agencies – the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) and the National Agency for Science & Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) – signed a joint Memorandum of Understanding MoU), in Dubai on the sidelines of the ongoing 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28), a United Nations-organised gathering on climate change.
The celebratory announcement of the partnership seemingly to justify their participation in the conference and the government-funded trip to Dubai, angered many Nigerians who believe it was a waste of scarce public resources.
This is even as Nigerians have condemned the country’s large number of delegates funded by the government to the conference, in the face of economic hardships millions of Nigerians are grappling with back home.
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Olukayode Egbetokun, an official also considered to have unnecessarily swollen the ranks of the Nigerian delegation to the conference, launched a Nigerian Police initiative to be implemented in Nigeria in Dubai.
But Nigerians on social media, particularly X, have criticised the decision of the officials to choose Dubai to announce the initiatives, describing it as an avoidable financial burden on Nigeria’s ailing economy.
Citizens criticise Nigerian agencies’ junket to Dubai to sign MoU
Nigerians have criticised two agencies of the federal government, whose heads chose Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to announce a partnership meant to be executed back home.
The agencies – the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) and the National Agency for Science & Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) – signed a joint Memorandum of Understanding MoU), in Dubai on the sidelines of the ongoing 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28), a United Nations-organised gathering on climate change.
The celebratory announcement of the partnership seemingly to justify their participation in the conference and the government-funded trip to Dubai, angered many Nigerians who believe it was a waste of scarce public resources.
This is even as Nigerians have condemned the country’s large number of delegates funded by the government to the conference, in the face of economic hardships millions of Nigerians are grappling with back home.
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Olukayode Egbetokun, an official also considered to have unnecessarily swollen the ranks of the Nigerian delegation to the conference, launched a Nigerian Police initiative to be implemented in Nigeria in Dubai.
But Nigerians on social media, particularly X, have criticised the decision of the officials to choose Dubai to announce the initiatives, describing it as an avoidable financial burden on Nigeria’s ailing economy.
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