Governor Hyacinth Alia Should Focus On Working, Not Complaining – Samuel Ortom

Former Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has come out to tell his successor, Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia that every succeeding government inherited assets and liabilities of previous administrations.

He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, it would be best for Alia to stop hallucinating and focus on how to use huge funds accrued to his administration from the federation account to address the current development challenges in the state.

He added that he did his bit as governor during a period when Nigeria plunged into recession at two different times.

His words, “This was even as the economic situation in the country was severe with federal allocations to states at their lowest since 1999, and Nigeria had plunged into recession at two different times.

If the present government is complaining about numerous garnishee orders, there is the possibility that it has defaulted on the payment arrangement that the Ortom administration made with the pensioners and the retirees have returned to the courts.

Interestingly, the current Commissioner for Justice, Fidelis Mnyim, served as counsel to some persons who took the Benue State Government to court.

He ought to have told the media if the case he handled was among the garnishee orders resulting in the N14 billion that he claimed.”