Children Of High-Profile Nigerian Politicians Are In Top Government Positions - Osita Chidoka

A former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, said that children of high-profile politicians are in top government positions.

Chidoka said this on The Platform, a special programme by Channels Television, marking Nigeria's 60th Independence anniversary.

He added that the citizenry has been "duped" for over 60 years - as the country marked its 60th year independence anniversary on Thursday, October 1, 2020.

He said, “When I became Corps Marshal, the Nigerian elite approached me for jobs for their constituents.

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“If you go to NNPC, NCC, or all the top parastatals of government, it is the children of Nigerian elites, the children of judges, permanent secretaries, the children of the current public servants that occupy these institutions.

“The Nigerian masses have been duped for the past 60 years."

He continued, “Now the challenge is that the Nigerian public, the Nigerian young people that should fight against this capture of state power, have turned around, hiding under ethnicity, religion, or money. We are in a difficult situation.”

Chidoka also listed other security challenges are facing, “social ethnic problems in the southeast, the ODUA now in the southwest, Boko Haram in the northeast, farmer/herders crisis in the northcentral, there is now a new impetus for new leadership to emerge.”