
ANALYSIS: How Akpabio exhibited wastefulness, insensitivity to the harrowing plight of Nigerians in birthday extravaganza
Despite the Nigerian government faltering in providing palliative to citizens for the aggravation of their economic misery by the removal of petrol subsidy and foreign exchange reform, the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, spared no expense in celebrating his 61st birthday, which he marked on 9 December. The government, after protests by the labour movement, agreed to provide palliatives to workers and the most vulnerable of citizens. But the government has struggled to do this for the mass of Nigerians or to even sustain the token N35,000 it announced for its own workers, after making the first payment in…