Ahmed Joda, chairman of the transition committee of
President Muhammadu Buhari, says the immediate past
administration left a deficit of N7 trillion.
He lamented on the state of the economy, saying the
government of former president, Goodluck Jonathan,
deceived Nigerians about the real state of the economy.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Daily Trust , the
man, who has played key roles in the transition committees
of different governments, also spoke on the challenges of
the new government.
“We were told at the beginning of the exercise that the
government was in deficit of at least N1.3 trillion and by the
end people were talking about N7 trillion,” he said.
“We were to receive the handover notes, study them and
wherever necessary to seek clarifications from wherever,
whether ministers, civil servants or chairmen of boards or
chief executives of parastatals. But, we did not receive
those notes in time and our terms of reference although
extended by the president limited us by the mere fact of our
name ‘transition committee’.
“On May 29, we could not be a transition committee
because the transition had ended. We did not want to ask
for extension in order to be able to interrogate the other
government people. In any case, the ministers had gone and
it would have been a complicated, probably expensive
exercise to bring them.
“We did not want to stay and nobody asked us to extend our
time to interrogate them so what we said in our report is
that look in view of the fact that the handover notes were
delayed, we did not have time to interrogate, question or
interact with any of the people of government; therefore we
leave this to the incoming government. In any case, it would
be an investigative thing by now and the government can do
what it likes.
“Nigeria should be ready to face a lot of challenges. The
biggest in my view is corruption; it is everywhere. There is
no department, no ministry that can be said to be free of
corruption. There is nowhere that fraud does not take place
on a daily basis. It has become embedded in the minds of
the people because the rule books have been thrown away
and everybody is doing what they like. Nobody follows the
rules anymore. You employ people anyhow and pay them
anyhow and I think you in the media have a fair idea of what
is going on and are surprised how bad things are.
“I often wondered, since the beginning of this exercise, if the
PDP and president Jonathan had won the election, what
would have been the fate of Nigeria. It would have been
more difficult for them to face the challenge because they
had been telling people that everything was good; the roads
were good. They were not talking about the absence of light
in the house, but they were talking about the capacity to
produce electricity is 12,000 megawatts out of which only
5,000 could be released.
“But even out of this 5,000, at the time they were doing the
handover notes, only 1,300 megawatts was being
generated, but they were talking about 35,000 kilometers of
distribution lines and so on, but nobody told us the real
problem – that there is no gas, or there is no capacity to
transmit the electricity that could be generated; that even
when it is delivered at the point of distribution, the
distribution system is so weak that it can’t take it. I
personally didn’t know that until I got into this exercise.
Now, if they came back, they couldn’t wake up in the
morning and say we can’t pay salaries, we couldn’t do this
or even pay contractors and might even not be able to pay
pensions and gratuities or finance any of our operations.”


www.thecable.ng/joda-jonathan-deceived-us-left-a-deficit-of-n7-trn

Hmmm...if this is true, then we have to start donating money to PMB government I guess.

Den Buhari shld fix dis country We voted him to do dat And not going up and down telling us corruption is here and dere

Hmmmm

Excuses left right and center....

America was in a mess when Obama took over. He didnt blame republicans left right and center.

N7trillion ? This one don pass one chance! Infact the APC one chance plus this Jona debt don put us for TWO CHANCE.

Excuses....


Pls our instagram President shld get to bizness and stop feeding us with lies and excuses.

3wks and the only concrete thing u have done is bombing the creeks of Akwa-Ibom and pampering bokoharam. CHANGE indeed!

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Den Buhari shld fix dis country
We voted him to do dat
And not going up and down telling us corruption is here and dere

Are you serious?!! So you and other TANoids voted buhari while deceiving GEJ even till now. You are admiting what we long suspect, that your loyality is to money you get not to GEJ or PDP

INTROVERT:
Hmmmm

Excuses left right and center....

America was in a mess when Obama took over. He didnt blame republicans left right and center.

Are you sure you followed the developments in America after Obama took over office?

Is that what GEJ is owing or that is what him,Obj and Yaradua is owing?

adonismuller:
Is that what GEJ is owing or that is what him,Obj and Yaradua is owing?

Gud question !

Some peeps hv 4gotten dt Baba iyabo and yar'Adua hv bin dia b4 GEJ.


Baba one chance and his crew shld plz leave GEJ alone. GEJ now belongs 2 d past. They shld Start work Asap and stop looking 4 excuses.

We need CHANGE and nt EXCUSES here and dia.

Jorussia:
Are you sure you followed the developments in America after Obama took over office?

Enlighten me.

Utchgirl:



Gud question !

Some peeps hv 4gotten dt Baba iyabo and yar'Adua hv bin dia b4 GEJ.


Baba one chance and his crew shld plz leave GEJ alone. GEJ now belongs 2 d past. They shld Start work Asap and stop looking 4 excuses.

We need CHANGE and nt EXCUSES here and dia.

that's what APC is good at, lies,excuses and propaganda!

We elected him to bring about changes and they are busy finding fault and witch hunting.

Joda as the head of the transition committe is only saying what he observed,where did he mention apc or pmb?,and the tanoids are spewing trash,is he the spokeperson of the apc or pmb media officer?

adonismuller:
that's what APC is good at, lies,excuses and propaganda!

We elected him to bring about changes and they are busy finding fault and witch hunting.

Exactly !


Bt dey can't fool everybody naah.

APC hv 4gotten dt it's nt gud 4 a kettle 2 be calling a cooking pot black .

Ogoni ,Odi and recently A/Ibom, calabar now hv one tin in common.


APC and Baba one chance promised us change and change we want biko.

If this is true then the nation is in deep shit!...

INTROVERT:



Enlighten me.

Obama criticized the administration of bush.Especially his military interventions in the middle east.The democrat and Republican parties in the us criticizes each other.

7 trillion no be beans ow, I would keep quiet if there is an evidence for incurring such debt

THE AMOUNT IS ADEQUATE FOR A COUNTRY LIKE NIGERIA, THEREFORE NO SKIN PAIN WE ARE RICH COUNTRY

I don't want to believe all these will be an excuse not to perform.


Berra fix it... During campaign you knew nijas problem and you promised. so no excuses