Living lavishly ever after, By Wole Olaoye
Ortom’s 23 Vehicles It was Samuel Ortom, the immediate past governor of Benue State, who catapulted this issue to the front burner of national discourse with his ongoing public spat with the state government over his severance package, having served as governor for eight years.
Nigerians are now questioning whether leaving public office with 23 government vehicles should be allowed, even where officially allocated, in a state where the overwhelming majority of the people are living from hand to mouth, and in which pensioners who retired from the state civil service are routinely owed their paltry gratuities for years on end.
State and local governments, which are the closest tier of government to the people, have been reduced to fiefdoms where the mere fact of leaving office on the expiration of a four- or eight-year tenure entitles the retiree to a lifetime of paid leisure by the government.
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