President Buhari, who has been criticised for looking the other way while Sani Abacha stole billions of dollars from public treasury while in office, has again justified his working with the dictator.
While speaking at the presidential villa on Tuesday when he hosted the Buhari Support Organisation (BSO), led by Hameed Ali, Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, President Muhammadu Buhari, praised late military dictator, Sani Abacha for his work in building infrastructure.
President Buhari said that regardless of what anyone thinks about Abacha, it must be remembered that subsequent civilian presidents spent billions on naira in infrastructure yet have had little to show for it.
In a comment that appeared directed at former president Olusegun Obasanjo, Buhari specifically noted: “You know the rail was killed and one of the former Heads of State between that time was bragging that he spent more than 15 billion American dollars not Naira on power. Where is the power? Where is the power?”
The President also spoke about the nation’s buoyant crude oil earnings in the past, compared to the meagre earnings during his administration, wondering why past governments ended up in debt rather than a deep purse.
He said; “No matter what opinion you have about Abacha. I agreed to work with him and the roads we did from PTF exist from here to Port Harcourt, to Onitsha, to Benin and so on.
“I have to repeat what I want public to know here. Some of you may not have heard it. Either there is no power in your place or even in the television, I said and I challenge anybody to check from Europe, Asia and America. Between 1999 and 2014, Nigeria was getting 2.1 million barrels per day at average cost of $100 dollars per barrel.
“It went up to $143. So Nigeria was earning 2.1m million times 100 times 16 years seven days a week. When we came, it collapsed to $37-38 and it was oscillating between 40 and 54 sometimes. I went to the Governor of Central Bank; thank goodness I did not sack him; he is still there! I went with my cap in my hand but there were no savings, only debt.
“And you know more than I do the condition of the roads and some of them were not repaired since PTF days. No matter what opinion you have about Abacha, I agreed to work with him and the PTF road we did from here to Port Harcourt, to Onitsha, to Benin and so on... On top of other things in the institution, education, medical care and so on.
“You know the rail was killed and one of the former Heads of State between that time was bragging that he spent more than $15billion, not naira, on power. Where is the power? Where is the power? And now we have to pay the debts and this year and last year's budgets I took to the National Assembly were the highest in capital projects: more than N1.3trillion.
“Let anybody come and confront me publicly in the National Assembly. What have they been doing? Some of them have been there for 10 years. What have they been doing? So, really, this country, luckily for me, I said it about eight years [ago] that we have no other country than Nigeria, we should remain here and salvage it together no matter what you have outside.”
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Posted: at 22-05-2018 06:51 PM (5 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Oga, we dey do audit of Nigeria’s finances. If you misplaced, stole, relocate or simply chop our moni, we want recover am. You gotta account for your stewardship, so stop your threats.
Posted: at 23-05-2018 04:47 AM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Abacha looted the treasure but he still did some projects and the refineries were working at less than $30 per barrel of crude oil. l think at Babangida regime too.
16 years of PDP at average of $80 to $100 per barrel, ALL the refineries were not working and that lead us to where we are today.
The fact is that a building can be destroy in a day, but no one has build a building in a day
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