SAN FRANCISCO, April 02, (THEWILL) – The Presidency has declared that the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration’s war against perfidy and corruption will not relent despite the strong resistance and calculated actions to thwart government’s efforts.
This was declared in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on media and publicity to the President, Garba Shehu, who recalled that the President’s commitments to root out corruption is one of the cardinal policies of his election campaign made to Nigerians.
“Let me say one thing. Those whose illicit ways of accumulating money have been stopped will criticize this government but all that will not derail the unfaltering commitment of the President, Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to the war against corruption,” he stated.
“He is aware that this was one of the main reasons why Nigerians in their millions put their trust in him; the main reason they voted him into power in 2015.
“To keep that trust of ordinary Nigerians who voted him into the office, he has vowed to give corruption a good fight. He will not let them down.
“Corruption has been fighting back vehemently, finding accomplices in various forms and guises. Nevertheless, the Buhari administration will not relent.
“Nothing will return our country to those sad, old days of wanton thievery that have plunged us into the economic mess from which Nigeria is currently recovering. The war against corruption in Nigeria is one of those clashes between good and evil, where good is determined to triumph.”
He dismissed rumours that members of the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC were being spared, saying that all are equal before the law.
Shehu disclosed that upon directives by the President, the National Hajj Commission carried out an audit of accommodation agents in both Makkah and Madina in Saudi Arabia and declared that as a result, “each Hajj pilgrim is being saved between 600 to 1,000 Saudi Riyals, which is about N60,000-N100,000 from accommodation, money that had lined the pockets of agents in the past.”
He also commended ordinary citizens for embracing the whistle-blower policy by “taking extraordinary risks to expose corruption” and credited the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, with the record of being the first ever Minister to ride on all the federal roads across the nation.
He disclosed that in addition to the roads, there were three major projects very dear to the President which he is determined to execute.
They are the Mambila power project; the Lagos-Kano, Lagos-Calabar and Port Harcourt-Maiduguri railway modernization projects; and, the new Presidential Initiative on Fertilizer.
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