With delegates continuing to groan over the shortage of food at lunchtime, the conference secretariat is now considering monetizing the food.
A motion to that effect moved yesterday by Mr Jadin Ebunun, a retired police officer initially did not elicit much support. But after lunch when again many delegates still missed out, the issue was confronted head on.
Asked by Vanguard why he raised the issue as a substantive motion, Ebunun said: “They contracted caterers to feed us but when we get there we don’t see food to eat.
“We have been complaining but nothing has been done that is why I said if they cannot supply us food, I cannot go and fight for food in the kitchen, by the time you get there, there is no food, I am a gentle man.” “When we get there, there is no food, we come back and it has become a ritual. If food doesn’t go round, there is no need saying they are feeding us; we have two hours for lunch, we will be going out to feed. So, what is the essence of saying they are feeding us?”
But the issue resurfaced after lunch when Labour Party national chairman, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu raised an observation that the issue of food was not supposed to be moved as a motion but should have been subtly discussed with the secretariat to prevent impressions that delegates were at the conference for food.
In a response, the deputy chairman of the conference, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi said that a deluge of letters of protests and complaints to the secretariat in the last few days necessitated the permission for the motion.
He however promised that the request for the monetization would be looked into.
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