This Meme Sums Up Our Feelings About Godswill Akpabio Going Abroad For Treatment…
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 in News



Excuse the grammar…but you get the message…I found this meme on Instagram today.

On Monday Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio was involved in a car accident in Abuja and on Tuesday he was flown out on a private jet to United Kingdom for medical treatment.

In May just before leaving the Governor’s office, Akpabio who is the immediate past Governor of Akwa Ibom State, commissioned a N30 billion hospital in Akwa Ibom. When opening the hospital he said the hospital which he said was equipped with “640 city scanners, digital mammography, endoscopy surgery, highly sophisticated intensive care units and medical gas plants with fully automated laboratories” was a “world-class specialist center with ultra-modern medical facilities that would attract medical tourism to state”.


His words during the commissioning of the medical masterpiece,

We lose billions of dollars every year to medical trips abroad. We have also lost a lot of people, not because we don’t have the expertise in the country. We needed a hospital that can run at international standard. We also decided to have a hospital that would answer to the needs of Nigerians in terms of advanced health management. And that was why we built the Akwa Ibom Specialist Hospital.

He also said rather than rich Nigerians going abroad for treatment it would be easier to visit the Uyo hospital,

Sometimes, people die in the air while being transported abroad for treatment. We wanted to shorten travel time for patients going abroad and at the same time get revenue for the state from health tourism

And…

We have about 380 suites and so many operating wards. We are starting with 150 expatriates all at once. We are in agreement with a Swiss hospital group and an Arab healthcare group in partnership with Cardio Care in Lagos

Like we said earlier on Tuesday he was flown to the UK not to this $30bn specialist hospital he was praising back in May…his legacy to his state…the irony is not lost on us.

This. Is. Nigeria.

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Let me play the devil's advocate here a bit.
In his defense.
Either
1. The hospital was for the people of Akwa Ibom state and not for him. He is now a senator so he assumes the position of a world citizen... Ergo... The reason he can go abroad for minor injury.
Or
2. Abroad is just closer than the "world class" hospital in uyo... Just enter a private jet sip your champagne and relax.

Make Una no kill me o...

Naija ehnn