…Laments Why FCT Minister Fails To Do Same To Other Civil Servants
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Joe Korka-Waada, has accused the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr. Nyesom Wike, of alleged bias and concealed motive in his “overreaching generosity” toward judges in his recently unveiled housing schemes for public servants.
Korka-Waada, a Canada-based political management consultant, questioned why other arms of the civil service such as doctors, teachers and others not enjoying similar treatment from Wike.
The APC chieftain noted that Wike, through his time as Rivers state governor and now FCT minister has made a habit of showering judges in the nation’s judiciary with exclusive welfare packages in isolation of other public servants.
Speaking on Thursday in a Zoom press conference from his based in Canada, Korka-Waadah said, “I ask a pertinent question for the Nigerian public to ponder. Why is Wike so generous only to judges in his loud welfare schemes to public servants?
“Don’t get me wrong. I am not against the minister’s policy to gift judges enviable mansions and expensive jeeps in service through retirement. He did it in Rivers state and now replicating same thing as the minister of FCT.
“We know he is a lawyer, his wife a judge, but there must be more to it than meets the eye? Why does Wike not consider medical doctors, teachers, nurses, and directors in public servants professional enough to earn a place in his housing scheme for judges wherever he finds himself?
“I call on Wike and Nigerians to interrogate his motive, knowing how much politicians value judges for self interests. Otherwise, he should extent his concern for good housing schemes as retirement benefits to teachers and doctors in public service as he is doing for judges.
