'When you are in government, you don't sit on money.'
, Clement Jimbo, has said that henceforth, he would no longer give out money to his constituents who seek financial help to organise burial ceremonies.When contacted on Saturday, Mr Jimbo told PREMIUM TIMES that he took the decision because he did not want to be “distracted by the thousands of financial solicitations for burial purposes” from his constituents.
“If God has blessed you with the resources to do what you want, go ahead, but not when you do not have . We should learn to cut our cloth according to the piece of cloth we have.” But residents of the state, like other states in Southern Nigeria, often desire to organise flamboyant burial ceremonies for departed relatives or friends.Mr Jimbo said although he had been widely criticised for his decision to stop financial support for burial ceremonies, he was not worried that it could affect his re-election in 2027.
“When you are in government, you don’t sit on money, especially if you are a legislator like me. We don’t award contracts, we simply oversight the executive. We monitor what they do in line with what is approved for them. So we don’t carry bags of money and distribute it to anyone that wants it. Nobody does it,” he stressed.
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