Shehu Sani, vice-chairman of the
senate committee on foreign affairs, has accused the federal government of
treating the embassies abroad with lack of seriousness.
Sani said this when the ministry
of foreign affairs appeared before the committee to defend its budget.
He said many of the nation’s
embassies abroad were in a sorry state, lamenting over how the poor condition
of the toilet in Nigerian mission in Moscow, Russia.
“No responsible nation that has
clear cut development- driven and visionary foreign policy will deliberately
under-fund her foreign missions,” the senator said.
“For the past four years this
committee has been over-sighting this ministry in terms of budgetary
appropriations and other assistance, no significance progress can be said to
have been made .
“Most of our missions are in
sorry state by not being able to pay their electricity or water bills and even
the nation’s diplomats too are in a state of hunger and indebtedness based on
information gathered or practical experience witnessed.
“The so-called diplomats cannot
pay their children school fees, and the worst of it is the toilet of the
Nigerian embassy in Moscow, Russia, is stinking due to non-functionality of its
flusher, embarrassingly making anybody that uses it to flush it with bucket of
water fetched from adjoining embassy.
“It is saddening that from all
indications and based on budgetary proposals tabled before this committee,
government is not making any serious attempt in tackling the global ridicule
that smaller countries like Cuba, and Jamaica, are not facing.”
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