FACT-CHECK: WHEN PROPAGANDA FAILS BASIC ARITHMETIC 🤣😂
Doc Paul Chijindu’s post is not an audit. It is a mixture of unrelated figures, unidentified photographs and emotional insults presented as accountability.
First, the government did not claim that ₦82 billion was spent on 54 smart schools. Abia’s official smart-school programme involves 20 schools across the 17 local government areas, not 54.
Proof:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/807520-abia-govt-firm-sign-agreement-to-establish-20-smart-schools.html
The figure “54” referred to schools still undergoing renovation out of 63 schools being worked on. Nine had reportedly been completed, while 54 were at different stages of completion. That is not the same as 54 smart schools.
Proof:
https://nationalambassadorngr.com/abia-govt-reports-progress-on-model-schools-road-projects-others/
The author simply saw ₦82 billion, saw 54 schools, added “smart schools” and produced a dramatic headline. That is not forensic accounting. It is mathematical comedy. 🤣😂
Ogbo Smart School is also not the only school project undertaken by the administration. Reports indicate that hundreds of primary and secondary schools were included in broader rehabilitation and education-upgrade programmes.
Proof:
https://radionigeria.gov.ng/2025/08/18/otti-unveils-%E2%82%A614bn-education-upgrade-major-health-reforms-in-abia/
Commissioning one completed school does not mean that only one school exists. Public projects are normally completed and commissioned in phases. Ogbo was presented as part of a wider smart-school initiative.
Proof:
https://thewhistler.ng/otti-commissions-ogbo-smart-school-warns-against-vandalism/amp/
The photographs attached to the post prove nothing by themselves. The author did not provide the names of the schools, their locations, dates of the photographs, contract details, project status or evidence that the buildings were among the schools covered by the disputed expenditure.
A photograph of an old classroom cannot automatically prove that ₦82 billion was spent on that particular classroom. By that method, anyone can photograph an abandoned building anywhere and attach it to any government project. 🤣
Inviting the Minister of Education to commission a modern public school is also entirely appropriate. Education infrastructure, technology, digital learning and school development fall directly within the Minister’s portfolio.
Would the author have preferred the Minister of Agriculture to commission the smart school? 😂🤣
VERDICT:
The post confuses smart schools with ordinary school rehabilitation, wrongly attaches ₦82 billion to 54 smart schools, ignores the official 20-school programme and uses unidentified photographs as financial evidence.
Accountability requires contract documents, project names, locations, dates, payment records and verified expenditure—not insults, capital letters and photo collages.
Doc Paul claimed to be following the money, but unfortunately followed the wrong figures. 🤣😂
Before demanding transparency from government, opposition commentators should first show transparency in their own arithmetic.
