Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of
Transportation, has revealed how Nigerian politicians “commit manslaughter.”
Amaechi, a former governor of
Rivers State said politicians commit manslaughter through corrupt practice, a
menace which he said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government was
determined to end.
Speaking with Vanguard, the
Minister, however, noted that all Nigerians should have access to the country’s
treasury and not a few who loot it.
He said some politicians loot
money meant for the building of hospitals and good roads, thereby causing the
death of Nigerians.
He said, “If I steal, maybe a
$100,000 from my ministry and give to you, you will say ‘oh, Amaechi is the
most generous minister’ but you didn’t ask me where I got it from.
“Now, you go home and give
$50,000 to your wife and she takes $20,000 and gives to her mother, her mother
goes to the market buys egusi and the woman she bought egusi from pays school
fees, the person he pays school fees repairs his door, the carpenter that fixes
the door, takes money to buy uniform for his child, the tailor that sews the
uniform pays for a burial.
“You see how the economy runs and
that is the economy of Nigeria and we are saying it just cannot continue, the
economy has to be productive; that is what the president is saying. If you want
to have access to the national economy, to the national treasury, then
everybody should have that access, it should not be where only few of us who
have access to it should loot the economy of Nigeria.
“How do we politicians kill by
accident? The money that is meant for the people and earmarked to be used for
building hospitals, you take it for your private use and the hospitals are not
built and so Nigerians go to hospitals where there are no drugs and they die
without knowing it. For me, you have committed manslaughter and the problem for
me is that Nigerians don’t hold us accountable!
That is why Buhari always goes abroad for medical treatment.
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