Reno Omokri, former aide to
President Goodluck Jonathan has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari for saying
fertilizer trucks disappeared under the immediate past regime.
Buhari spoke at the State House,
Abuja, on Friday during a meeting with members of the Presidential Fertiliser
Initiative.
The President said: “Unlike in
previous Governments where trucks conveying fertiliser would miraculously
disappear in transit, in 2017, none of the three thousand, three hundred and
thirty three (3,333) trucks that participated in this program went missing.”
Reacting on Sunday, Omokri said
the comments were most unfortunate.
“How a man approaching 80 years
of age will continue to lie without restraint beats my imagination, but I will
let the facts respond to the President”, he wrote.
“The fact is that no trucks of
fertilizer got missing during the Jonathan administration because that
government stopped sending trucks of fertilizer nationwide and instead of that
archaic model, it introduced the e-wallet system of fertilizer distribution,
which cut out the middle man and thus the need for trucks of fertilizer.
“By that system, farmers got a
text directing them to pick up their fertilizers themselves at a location
nearest to them.
“I have pictures and can provide
the President with over 1 million names, phone numbers and addresses of
Nigerian farmers who can testify to what I have just written. Mr. President may
want to educate himself on this issue some more.
“This policy saved the Federal
Government $1 billion and was cited by Transparency International as one of the
reasons for which it gave the Jonathan government an eight point improvement in
the 2014 Corruption Perception Index. Nigeria moved from 144 to 136. That has
been Nigeria’s greatest improvement in the annual CPI to date.
“It does seem that President
Buhari is divorced from reality and that he still thinks Nigerians are
gullible.
“In just 2018 alone, eight
independent international indexes have rated the Buhari government as much
worse than the Jonathan administration in almost every Index of government,
including the following: Transparency International; IMF Report; Press Freedom
Index; Rule of Law Index; Investment Attractiveness Index
Global Competitive Index; World
Security & Police Index; Spectator Index.
“In fact, even the Nigerian
Government’s National Bureau of Statistics revealed that whereas the Jonathan
administration set an unprecedented jobs record by creating 6 million new jobs
for Nigerians between 2010 and 2015, over 10 million Nigerians have lost their
jobs under the present government.
“Yet President Buhari still talks
about “16 years of PDP misrule”. The President is obviously living in a reality
distortion bubble.”
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