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Buhari To Address Lagos-ibadan Express Road From Next Week by Nobody: 4:34pm On Nov 24, 2015 |
President Muhammadu Buhari has
disclosed that sabotage and theft of gas
were undermining the efforts of the
government to increase power supply in the
country.
He made the remark during question and
answer interaction with the Nigerian
community in Tehran, the Islamic Republic
of Iran.
To check the trend, he said that existing
Military Task-Forces will be reorganized
to ensure successful protection of the
network of gas pipelines in the country.
Buhari, in a statement by his Senior
Special Assistant on Media and Publicity,
Garba Shehu, noted that sabotage of
pipeline installations continues to be a
problem despite improvement in power in
the recent period.
According to him, Nigeria has everything it
takes to generate enough power.
“Power is a running battle because the
saboteurs are still there. We have the
potential. We have gas, we have qualified
people but we are contending with a lot of
saboteurs who go and blow up installations.
When gas is pumped to Egbin and such
other power stations, thieves and saboteurs
such as the militants cut those supplies,” he
said.
He also cited another factor as the reduced
role of the government in the sector due to
the privatization of the institutions under
the Power Handling Company of Nigeria
(PHCN) in the process of which, he said,
the facilities “have been sold to a number of
interest groups.”
He assured that the Military task-forces
with representation from the Army, Navy,
Air Force, the Police and the secret
services will be reconstituted to secure the
pipelines.
“Supplies will become steady; there will be
less sabotage as we secure the pipelines.”
The President also updated the Nigerians
in Tehran on the efforts of his
administration towards ending the Boko
Haram terrorism in the country, explaining
that a lot had been achieved following the
reorganization of the military top command,
followed by increased equipment supply and
training.
In response to a question on the need to
improve healthcare delivery, President
Buhari said that efforts had been
intensified towards ridding the country of
fake drugs and fake doctors, and also what
he called “the disgraceful aspects”
manifested by ” baby factories.”
He listed several steps being taken towards
the revival of education from primary
school level to university.
On creation of jobs, he placed the
prevailing joblessness in the country at the
door-step of the last administration which
he blamed for giving “a devastating blow to
the economy through corruption and
incompetence.”
The President said that something urgent
will be done about the bad condition of
roads, citing the Lagos-Ibadan
Expressway as one to be addressed from
next week by the Minister, Works, Power
and Housing Babatunde Fashola who sat
next to him at the meeting.
Speaking on the issue of corruption, one of
the three issues he identified as the
priorities of his administration, President
Buhari said that the necessity for
compliance with due process of the law
was responsible for the delay in the
prosecution of the looters of the country’s
economy but that the “the day of reckoning
is gradually coming.”
He also revealed that a number of past
officials had begun the voluntary return of
stolen funds but expressed the view that his
government was not satisfied with tokens.
“We want to have everything back-all that
they took by force in 16 years,” the
President concluded.
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Re: Buhari To Address Lagos-ibadan Express Road From Next Week by Olumayor1(m): 4:34pm On Nov 24, 2015 |
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