'Vote for me and I’ll send corrupt Nigerians to
Kirikiri'
The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate,
Major-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has assured
Nigerians that all corrupt politicians will end up in jail once
he is elected into power.
Buhari, who gave the assurance on Tuesday during the APC
rally and the presentation of the party’s flag to Umana
Umana as its governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom State in
Uyo, said he would block all loopholes through which
money was being siphoned out of the country.
“When we come into power, anyone who steals Nigeria’s
money will end up in Kirikiri Maximum Prisons. We are
going to make sure that Nigeria’s wealth belongs only to
Nigerians,” he said.
He decried the nation’s over-dependence on oil, saying the
country would not have faced the current economic
downturn if the country had invested in agriculture.
According to Buhari, Nigeria used to export tin and
columbite, but all of a sudden stopped producing and
exporting these minerals with the hope that the country has
oil.
On the power sector, Buhari stated that many industries had
shut down operation because of epileptic power supply,
adding that Nigerian producers were unable to compete in
international market because of huge cost of generating
power.
Buhari, a former Head of State, assured Nigerians that his
government would create over three million jobs yearly to
take care of the teeming youths, who are unemployed.
Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, who is also the
Director General, Muhammadu Buhari Campaign
Organisation, said he was ashamed to read on the pages of
newspapers a claim by the Peoples Democratic Party that
things had continued to improve in Nigeria from 2011.
He added that governors decided that the excess crude fund
be shared, when the governors noticed that the account
continued to deplete each passing month.
Amaechi said, “I was ashamed to read on the pages of
newspapers where PDP said things had improved from
2011 till now.
“Oil price used to be between $120 and $145 before now.
Our savings used to be between $45 and $46bn. We had
over $10bn to $20bn in excess crude. The reason why the
governors asked that excess crude money be shared was
that after each meeting we had, if the money was $10bn,
before we come back for another meeting, it would be
$8bn. Who has taken the $2bn? We did not know.
“When we discovered that our money was being taken
away with reckless abandon without accounting, it was
then we asked, ‘Oga, please share this money. You are not
a bank, and if it were a bank, they would add more to the
money’.
“During (the late President Umaru) Yar’Adua and (a former
President Olusegun) Obasanjo, oil subsidy used to be
N300bn, but under our current president, it is N2.3trn and
over.” CLICK HERE TO READ FULL AND TOUCHING NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES BIOGRAPHY AND SCANDALS
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