Peter Obi donates to Kaduna bombing victims, N1m to 1,000 hospital workers

The Labour Party 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi has donated some sums of money to the victims of the Kaduna State bombing and N1 million to about 1,000 hospital staff members treating the victims in the northwest.

He noted that the N1 million donation was to buy a bottle of coke for each of the hospital workers. His visit comes after the Nigerian Army accidentally bombed Tudun Biri on Sunday, December 3, killing over 120 residents and injuring several others.

The former Governor, upon his visit, called on the Nigerian government to ensure such incident never happen again.

Speaking in a video on Channels Television Obi said, “I have to make her personal little contribution of N3 million to support. Doctors told me they have about 1000 workers in this hospital because I’m very critical. You can’t talk about healthcare unless there is the staff and the staff are critical.

“So I will buy them at least a bottle of Coke each. I am going to give Prof N1 million to be able to buy the staff - 1000 of them as 1,000 of Cokes will be N1,000,000. So I’m going to make that contribution to him because it’s important.

“And of course, there’s other extraordinary things, so I’ll be making a donation of about N5 million.”

Speaking on the fight against insecurity in the country, charged Tinubu to redirect funds intended for the purchase of luxury automobiles to equip the Nigerian security officers.

Obi said: “I think it was the Chief of Defence Staff who said that their regular allocations, budgetary allocations, are not released to them adequately and then one question: what is our priority? To release money for non-essential things like SUVs or renovations and everything, or to release money to secure ourselves.

“Because security, everybody knows, is very, very critical to our problem today. That will take our farmers back to the farm, which will tackle our main inflationary item - food. If you secure the country, that’s the only way we could attract foreign investors we are looking for all over the world; so, this is critical.

“So for me, we need to do more and make sure that we spend our resources in the critical areas where it will be even improving the health sector, like this hospital. Bringing them and treating them in the hospital is one thing. Do we have a sustainable foundation to see, especially the orphan children, all through? I have somebody who lost 34 family members.

“You know the trauma of that, especially these orphan children. We must all join hands. They are now our children and they are now our property. Everybody must join hands to see them through.”