Former Vice President Atiku
Abubakar, has reacted to reports that a strange snake swallowed N36m from
vaults in Makurdi office of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB,
and corruption level in the country.
Atiku, who spoke during the
Silverbird Man of the Year award, said, Nigerians must kill such snake in order
to eradicate poverty in the nation.
He said, “We have to kill the
snake of corruption that swallows the commonwealth that should lift our people
up from poverty.
“Whether that snake is in a JAMB
Office or any other government office, we must kill it or it will kill us.
“Nigeria needs to be
restructured. We must embrace restructuring as something that must be done to
fix Nigeria’s broken systems and not just a campaign gimmick that we fish out
of our magic hats and deny after we have gotten what we want.
“We cannot spend 70% of our
budget on recurrent expenditure at a time Nigeria has more unemployed or
underemployed people than the entire population of the Republic of Cameroon.
“When I was in government, we
reduced recurrent expenditure by introducing the monetization Policy and by
privatizing many government enterprises.
“Today, those policies have been
abandoned and recurrent expenditures have ballooned.
“Nigeria needs to be
restructured. We must embrace restructuring as something that must be done to
fix Nigeria’s broken systems and not just a campaign gimmick that we fish out
of our magic hats and deny after we have gotten what we want.”
Speaking on the recent report by
Transparency International, which Nigeria ranked higher than in 2015 in terms
of corruption, Atiku called on government to go beyond sentiments and be
factual.
“We talk of fighting corruption,
but let us move beyond sentiments and media trials and look at the facts.
“We must try to identify why,
though we have been ostensibly fighting corruption for the past few years,
Transparency International is scoring Nigeria even lower than in 2014,” Atiku
added
No comments
Post a Comment
Kindly drop a comment below.
(Comments are moderated. Clean comments will be approved immediately)
Advert Enquires - Reach out to us at NigerianEye@gmail.com