President Muhammadu Buhari has said past looters of the treasury are behind the resurgence of militancy in the Niger Delta region.
According to him”Those who stole Nigeria dry are not happy. They recruited the militants against us in the Niger Delta, and began to sabotage oil infrastructure. We lose millions of barrels per day, at a time when every dollar we can earn, counts. It is a disgrace that a minimum of 27 states, out of 36 that we have in Nigeria, can’t pay salaries.
In a statement by his special adviser media, Femi Adesina, President Buhari was speaking to top rate Nigerian professionals based in the United States of America ,whom Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora Matters and International Relations, described as “15 of the best people God ever created.”
The professionals were in New York to meet with the Nigerian President. Top flight aeronautics engineers, physicians, I.T experts, a Judge, a top policewoman, entrepreneurs, an Import Specialist at Customs and Border Protection, professors, two straight A students, and many others.
The parley provided President Buhari opportunity to bring them up to speed on how and why Nigeria got into trouble, with an assurance that with all hands on deck, including the best brains in the Diaspora, the country would bounce back in the shortest possible time.
“I am very pleased with this meeting,” President Buhari stated. “Wherever you go in the world, you find highly competent and outstanding Nigerians. They not only make great impact on their host countries and communities, their financial remittances back home also help our economy, particularly at a time like this, when things are down.
“We got into trouble as a country, because we did not save for the rainy day. For example, between 1999 and 2015, when we produced an average of 2.1 million barrels of oil per day, and oil prices stood at an average of $100 per barrel, we did not save, neither did we develop infrastructure. Suddenly, when we came in 2015, oil prices fell to about 30 dollars per barrel.
“I asked; where are the savings? There were none. Where are the railways? The roads? Power? None. I further asked; what did we do with billions of dollars that we made over the years? They said we bought food. Food with billions of dollars? I did not believe, and still do not believe.
“In most parts of Nigeria, we eat what we grow. People in the South eat tubers, those in the North eat grains, which they plant, and those constitute over 60 per cent of what we eat. So, where did the billions of dollars go? We did a lot of damage to ourselves by not developing infrastructure when we had the money.
“Talking of our military, they earned respect serving in places like Burma, Zaire, Sudan, Liberia, Sierra-Leone, and then, suddenly, that same military could no longer secure 14 out of 774 local governments in the country. Insurgents had seized them, calling them some sort of caliphate, and planting their flags there; till we came, and scattered them.
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Keneking:
Ok - all in PDP and APC abi

Useless government

emamos:
Blaming

emamos:
Blaming

drss2:
buari dullard is a type of feudalist leader dat is more suited for pipul in d 12th century. a person like buari has no bussiness in leadership position in d 21st century.

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emamos:
Stop Blaming n do your job

Izonpikin:
I just dislike this man every day..he blames everybody but himself..so buhari would tell us that his actions towards the region did not lead to the agitations in the Niger delta??

Would he tell us that truncating the pipeline surveillance job of indigenes isn't a cause for agitation??...

Would he say his nepotistic tendencies isn't enough for agitations from the region that feeds the country??...

Nonsense..

Paperwhite:
Still super clueless as usual.A glorified mumu president that once rightly said "I don't even know why I seek power ".ND problem have been there before you & will remain after you're gone. BTW the treasury looters including yourself are still in the APC there with you.So see to it

drss2:
so says d inkworoptible saint n boko arams grand patron who said, ''attack on boko arams is an attack on d north''. guess who have technically defeated terrorism in nigeria just 1 year after sworned in - buari dullard.

amaechi1:


Unfortunately, your dislike would not remove him from seat. You may end up giving yourself heart attack and the man will finish his term and if God said he will continue, he will surely continue.

emamos:
Stop Blaming n do your job