No Money To Settle ASUU Yet FG Intends To Purchase 53 Gold iPhones!

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October 16, 2013 7:48 AM

I burst into uncontrollable laughter when I stumbled on this particular story online.News that the Federal government had ordered for 53 Gold plated iPhones spread like wildfire all over the internet recently and many Nigerians took to social media to express their displeasure with this development.

Most people ranted on Twitter for hours as a result of a report quoting 42-year-old Amjad Ali, a Bristol-born businessman based in Dubai who said that he had received an order from the Federal government in Nigeria to each produce the gold-plated phones which cost between £3,000 and £50,000. the sum of all 53 comes to about N662m.

The company in charge of this venture, Gold and Co, a British luxury products company rebutted the allegations when a Nigerian activist by the name of Henry Okelue (@4eyedmonk) attacked them on popular social media, Twitter. The Dubai based company claimed that they received the order from an individual and not the government itself. The Federal government has since denied any development of the sort.

Speaking to Premium Times Online, the Press Secretary to the Minister of Information, Joseph Mutah, said «We have never heard of anything like that. The story is utterly false and mischievous, there is no any order like that at least by this government.» No one knows if the government is telling the truth but so many unsolved issues are still on ground most especially the quagmire presented by the ASUU strike.

If the government really ordered those phones, how then does it have the mouth to tell ASUU that it has no financial backing to satisfy their demands? Must Nigerian students continue to suffer while the government misuse funds which will be better suited to revamping the already dead and rotting Nigerian educational sector?

Nigerian students are at home, waiting. When will this festival of madness end?

By Ehimhen Obehi

Student Pulse Reporter

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