The calls and outcry of most Nigerians towards the neglect of the designer of Nigeria's National Flag has been answered.
At the National award ceremony held at the International Christian Centre, Abuja. President Goodluck Jonathan announced the placement of the designer of the national flag, Pa Michael Akinkunmi, on a salary of a Special Assistant to the President for life, and considering the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission's scale, the annual salary of a special assistant to the President is N14.06m.
One of the interesting part of the event was when Jonathan directed the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, to place Pa Akinkunmi on life salary. An addition to his national honour of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic.
The highly elated recipient, who's son was also around Akinwunmi, thanked the President for the gesture.
“Baba is very happy. We thank President Jonathan for this gesture. We are indeed appreciative of this because you all know that Baba has been neglected in the past. I am sure that this honour will spur Nigerians to continue to contribute to the development of the country,’’ his son said.
Jonathan spoke afterwards on the reasons the award as been so deserved by the awardees. “They have further confirmed my position that those who claim that people go into criminality because of poverty are not quite right.
“Myself and some of you here knew where we are coming from, we passed through stress but we didn’t take to criminality.”
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