AFRIQUECAN: GOVERNOR of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo says he has not taken any salary from the state since assuming office two years ago.
Governor Soludo, who made this known on Sunday in Awka, also revealed that his wife does not have an official car as the first lady of Anambra State.
He said the acts are intentional, adding that it is part of his efforts to execute the most austere measure of government ever through cost cutting and not borrowing for the last two years.
“Any governor that comes floods you with offers for borrowing and so on and so forth, but we decided for the first two years to demonstrate something, capacity to do more with less,’’ Soludo said at the International Convention Center, Awka.
“And so far as has been said, for two years, despite receiving about 25 per cent in real terms or in dollar terms of what was in the past, we have chosen deliberately not to borrow.
“As I speak to you, I am not taking any salary, I am not paid any salary by the Anambra State government. Even the First Lady of Anambra doesn’t have any official car, she still drives my personal vehicles,” Soludo said.