The Coalition of Southern and Middle Belt Youth Leaders Assembly, the umbrella body of all the youth groups in the South East, South-South, South West, and Middle Belt regions has excoriated the Federal Government over what it described as “financial recklessness”.

This was over the donation of $1 million dollars by the federal government to Afghanistan a Muslim country, at a time the Nigerian economy is financially handicapped.

This was contained in a press released and signed by Hon. Goodluck Egwu Ibem, Terrence Kuanum, Shittu Waheed, and Tito Zokumor for the body.

They regretted that the donation was coming when Nigeria “can barely execute any single project or pay mere salaries and pensions without borrowing to do so”,

According to the youths, this is gross insensitivity and financial recklessness on the part of the Federal Government to make such donations at a time like this. We are totally disappointed, to say the least.

“It is a common knowledge that Nigeria is currently in need of finance to survive and we cannot be pretending about it because the information is already in public domain.

“The Federal Government openly told Nigerians that there is no money in our purse to fulfill the financial promises it made to Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. We now ask the FG, where did the money donated to Afghanistan emanate from?

Source: The punch