The Buhari administration has been on a cash-printing spree since it assumed office in 2015, but showed little courage at being transparent about it.

Transport minister Rotimi Ameachi has been caught on tape admitting that President Muhammadu Buhari has always ordered the CBN to keep printing money since 2015, Peoples Gazette can report.

Transportation Minister, Chibuike Amaechi

Mr Buhari vowed to revamp the Nigerian economy in his campaign promises, but has been criticised for worsening the economic situation over the past six years of his regime.

In an interview with journalists prior to the 2019 general election in which Mr Buhari was re-elected, Mr Amaechi also disclosed that they swore an oath never to publicly admit to Nigerians that the government was on a printing spree of the national currency.

“And most of you didn’t know at the time we took over, most Nigerians don’t even know because we have sworn to an oath not to tell anybody we were printing money,” Mr Amaechi said.

President Muhammadu Buhari

“Do you know when a country prints money? When it has no money at all,” he said. “We were just printing money to pay debt.”

Mr Amaechi’s comments further exposed the cover-up that has followed Mr Buhari’s widely condemned approach to the country’s economy, as millions of citizens continue to plunge into poverty. Nigeria has since emerged as the country with the highest number of poor people in the world. The country also has the poorest electricity supply and the second country with the most jobless people worldwide.

Earlier this year, renowned credit rating institution Fitch said the Nigerian central bank under Mr Buhari has been printing money at an alarming rate, warning that such tactics could engender additional economic woes for the country’s 200 million people.

Last month, Governor Godwin Obaseki expressed concerns on crude oil revenue, disclosing that the federal government printed extra N60 billion for states to share in March.

“In another year or so, where will we find this money that we go to Abuja to share every month? Last month, we got FAAC for March,” he said, explaining that “the federal government printed an additional ₦50 to ₦60 billion to top-up for us to share”.

Edo governor Godwin Obaseki

“My worry is that we will wake up one day like Argentina, the naira will be ₦1,000, ₦2,000 and will be moving because we don’t have money coming in,” he maintained while lamenting that the current administration borrows without means or the idea of paying back.

In response, the Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed accused the governor of spreading falsehood, stating that “The issue that was raised by the Edo state governor for me is very, very sad because it is not a fact”.

Similarly, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, dismissed Mr Obaseki’s claim, describing it as “unfortunate and totally inappropriate”.

Addressing the matter while speaking with journalists, Mr Emefiele said: “If you understand the concept of printing of money. The concept printing of money, it’s about lending money.

“That’s our job – to print. It’s about lending money and so there’s no need putting the controversy about the printing of money as if we are going into the factory printing the naira and start distributing on the streets.”

Prior to Mr Buhari’s assumption of office on May 29, 2015, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo disclosed that their administration would inherit $60 billion as foreign and domestic debt from the Goodluck Jonathan administration.

Mr Osinbajo had also described the state of the Nigerian economy as unfortunate, stating that the nation has to spend 21 percent of its 2015 budget on debt servicing.

“We are concerned that our economy is currently in perhaps its worst moment in history. Local and international debt stands at $60 billion. Our debt servicing bill for 2015 is N953.6 billion, about 21 per cent of our budget,” the vice president had said.

A spokesman for Mr Amaechi did not return repeated requests seeking comments for the minister’s audio, which was part of a scandalous series that emerged in the run-up to the 2019 elections.

Although Mr Buhari and his appointees have been claiming repeatedly that they met an empty treasury, available facts showed the claim as untrue. The administration met at least $2.07 billion in excess crude accounts as of May 2015 when it came in.

Peoples Gazette

Wahala be like lalasticlala's jalabia o.

Buhari is the world's dumbest dumbo. His cluelessness is second to none. , over to you

Printing money to keep for themselves, who did this to us?

Aru emeeh...chai!

Indeed, there was a country.

There won't be a country in 2023,
Isnt it obvious?

And it was written in the Bible

It’s finished

Please don't hate Amechi for saying the truth.

Anyway, please I will Design a Professional Logo For your Product or Company For 2k Only

A good student of economics already know this.

Add false positive and growth statistics released by govt and it's apparatus to deceive themselves and their gullible followers

Transport minister Rotimi Ameachi has been caught on tape admitting that President Muhammadu Buhari has always ordered the CBN to keep printing money since 2015, Peoples Gazette can report.

One thing about Rotimi Amechi is that he is such a garrulous man and so frank

People’s gazette is expecting Rotimi Amechi to deny this before throwing out the video

Garrulous Amaechi!
This one choke!!!

Noted

istina:
Printing money to keep for themselves, who did this to us?

apc xombies

President dumbo d most clueless wicked president in the history of the world

Where are the supports of Buhari, Iet them defend him now, I guess they are tired. Awon were.

Agama Lizard himself, I can't wait for the rebuttal (I was taken out of context)...

Confession time...


But wetin dey worry all these banks wey still dey give me old naira notes even after them don print new ones?

We shall see!

Okay

printing and looting.

one thing I credence or believe is, one day all this rubbish will be over. either the country divide or they kick the bucket. Nobody will live forever. They and their generations will reap all this evil they're sowing.

We all know this government is good at lieing and manipulating information but the truth would always find its way.

Obaseki said that time,.... Zainab talk say naa lie

Amaechi also don talk... Who go come counterfeit am now.... Abi naw lai.....

We meuve!!

Hmm... this government and its cabinet is useless. I wonder how the CBN governor and Minister of Finance reason. This almost seems like a clip from Idi Amin.

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Expect a press release by Amaechi denying this statement


These days, no one can differentiate truth from propaganda... Cos this govt can do anything.

But for me, am beginning to believe this story of money printing.

Sometime at the middle of buharis 1st term, oil price was around 32 dollar per barrel. Then price of naira again the dollar was around 360-400...

But now, even with the price of oil hovering above 60 dollar per barrel.... Price of naira against dollars have not improved at all.... Even getting worst.

Mheen! Lieing oath.. This one just weak me

Some people are working on overtime to get Amaechi out of this government.

Buhari is not fit to run or head a small provision store let alone a country.
He practically has no experience , he has only succeeded in plunging the whole nation into a big mess.

Honestly This Zainab Ahmed is not qualified to hold any post in the ministry of finance, let's tell our selves the truth

Zombies will flee this thread!

Naija politicians nawa oooo

Can't say I'm surprised but on the funny side why's it amaechi that's always caught on tape talking