Minister of Information and
Culture, Lai Mohammed, support and defend the Buhari led government's fight
against corruption. The fight against corruption is necessary as it has
affected the provision of basic amenities to Nigerians.
Read what he said below...
"I’ve heard many commentators say that
this administration is fighting corruption without paying attention to the
economy. Of course, this is not true. But even if it was, it is patently
justified. Why? Unless we fight corruption to a standstill, nothing else we do
will yield positive results.
It was corruption that
prolonged the war against Boko Haram and sent many soldiers and civilians to
their early graves. It was corruption that ensured that while oil was selling
for over $100 per barrel, we had nothing to show for the windfall. It was
corruption that gave us darkness instead of light when we supposedly pumped
millions of dollars into the power sector. I can tell you today that we are
squarely fighting corruption and we are winning. The situation is serious and
no government can fight the battle alone.
That explains why we have
launched a nationwide sensitization campaign to make Nigerians to join the
anti-graft war. We launched the campaign in January and we released what some
people call a bombshell that between 2006 and 2013, just 55 people allegedly
stole a total of N1.34trn, an amount that is more than one quarter of the 2015
national budget. Even if just one-third of the stolen fund is recovered, it
will provide us with 6 Lagos Ibadan express ways and in addition, it will build
183 schools to educate 3,974 children from primary to tertiary education, also
36 modern hospitals. The money that was originally stolen represents the total
earning s of four African nations.
The funds meant to buy arms
and ammunition for our soldiers to fight Boko Haram was shared out by few
people for political purposes. What is remarkable in all of this is that no one
who has been named to have shared in the money has denied it. All they have
done is give very ridiculous excuses for what they did. All of must be part of
the war; it’s not Buhari’s war, it’s not APC’s war, its Nigeria’s survival war,”
he said.
We give all the support fight corruption to the last, the stealing is too much
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