President Muhammadu Buhari says
some wicked people plundered the country and “kept Nigerians poor”.
According to Femi Adesina,
spokesman of the president, Buhari said this in London Sunday while receiving a
delegation of the Buhari Diaspora Support Organisation.
Buhari said his administration
had not done badly considering that it met the country “without savings and the
economy badly vandalised”.
President Buhari said the damage
done to the Nigerian economy in the years of plunder was massive, and that
government was doing its best to recover some of the loot, although it was
impossible to identify and recover all.
“If they had used 50% of the
money we made when oil prices went as high as $143 dollars per barrel and
stabilised at $100 dollars with production at 2.1 million barrels per day for
many years, Nigerians would have minded their businesses,” he said.
“You could almost grow food on
our roads, as they were abandoned. The stealing was so much, and they were so
inept that they could not even cover the stealing properly. I wonder how all
those things could have happened to our country.”
The president, who noted that
Nigeria was gifted with tremendous human and natural resources, regretted that
the failure of some of the leaders of the nation led to the inability of his
administration to capitalise on resources to improve the lot of the people.
He, however, commended Nigerians
who are in the diaspora defending the country, saying that they have shown
courage and sacrifice.
He also thanked the Buhari
Diaspora Support Organisation for deciding to identify with the country, “when
you could have stayed here being comfortable”.
Responding, Charles Sylvester,
coordinator of the organisation, said the group was happy with the achievements
of Buhari’s administration.
He said the president had
overcome most of the challenges he met, especially in the areas of agriculture
revolution, ease of doing business, anti-corruption war, employment of youths
through the N-Power programme, and the blockage of leakages in the public
sector through the Treasury Single Account (TSA), among others.
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