President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday told
journalists in Accra, Ghana, that he had declared his
assets four times since 1975 and challenged the
newsmen to investigate the details of his possession.
Buhari asked journalists to use the required law to
dig up the records of his four separate asset
declarations.
He said, “I recall that in 1975 when late Murtala
Mohammed became the Head of State, we were
lined up in the corridor – governors, ministers,
members of the Supreme Military Council – and
officials of the Ministry of Justice were brought and
every individual was made to declare his assets.
“So right now, all heads of state and government,
governors, ministers, permanent secretaries will
have to declare their assets because it is a
constitutional requirement.”
The President said it was a constitutional
requirement that public officers declare their assets.
He said, “In Nigeria, it is a constitutional issue and
that is why I am blaming you gentlemen of the press.
If you really want to do investigative journalism, you
don’t have to worry me at this stage; I have declared
my assets four times.
“When I was governor in 1975, I declared. After
being Minister of Petroleum and as a member of
Supreme Military Council, I declared. When I was
Head of State and now as a President, I also declared.
“I have declared my assets and all that I have four
times, and you (the media) have the right to go and
demand for my declaration. Instead, I am being
harassed.”
Also at a joint press conference with the Ghanian
President John Mahama in Accra, Buhari said that he
would name his cabinet before the end of this
month.
The Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media
and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, in a statement,
quoted his principal as saying, “After I was sworn-in, I
said I will have my cabinet in September. I expect
that Nigerians should ask me questions after the 30th
of September if I do not do so,”
The President was responding to a question on the
appointment of ministers.
He spoke amid concern that he might not name his
cabinet this month because the National Assembly
would resume from its recess at the end of the
month.
The President also said that the Nigerian military, in
collaboration with the Multi-National Joint Task
Force, had recorded remarkable progress in the fight
against Boko Haram since he assumed office.
He stated, “The first thing I did after I came into
office was to reorganise the military and clear orders
were given to them in terms of retraining, re-
equipping and redeployment of troops.
“In the North-East, the military is gaining ground and
Boko Haram has been limited to the Sambisa Forest.
“Internally Displaced Persons are gradually moving
back home and they are being reintegrated into their
respective communities.”
Mahama had said both leaders had fruitful
discussions on how to enhance bilateral relations and
improve regional security.
He said that Nigeria and Ghana would soon begin the
process of reviving their joint commission for
cooperation.
The Ghanaian President added that both leaders also
agreed to encourage closer cooperation between the
intelligence and anti-graft agencies of both countries.
He thanked President Buhari for his visit and assured
him of Ghana’s support and cooperation with Nigeria
in the fight against terrorism.
In a separate interview with the editor, BBC Hausa,
Mansur Liman, Buhari said culprits in the theft of the
country’s crude oil in the last few years would be
named and prosecuted soon.
The President said top management personnel of the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation could not
feign ignorance of the goings-on in the corporation in
the last 10 years.
Buhari, who spoke in an interview with the editor,
BBC Hausa, Mansur Liman, said, “I am very pleased
with the reorganisation, we are getting a lot of
results, which we hope in a couple of months’ time
we can make clear disclosures and start to prosecute
those that had been stealing the crude.
“Those who have been in charge of NNPC at top level
can’t claim ignorance of what has been happening in
the last 10 years. And the companies include the
shipping companies, which allowed themselves to be
used to lift illegal crude from Nigeria or to change at
high sea or head to a different destination.”
There had been allegations that the NNPC failed to
remit N3.8tn to the Federation Account and allegedly
stole 250,000 barrels of crude oil per day under the
previous administration.
The NNPC, under the new Group Managing Director,
Ibe Kachikwu, had last month announced the
cancellation of the contract for the delivery of crude
oil to the nation’s refineries in Warri, Port Harcourt
and Kaduna.
The government’s oil corporation also announced the
termination of the Offshore Processing Agreements
entered into in January, 2015, with three
companiesp: Duke Oil Company Inc., Aiteo Energy
Resources Limited and Sahara Energy Resources
Limited.
Under the terminated agreement, NNPC was
allocating a total of 210,000 barrels of crude oil per
day for refining at offshore locations in exchange for
petroleum products at pre-agreed yield pattern.
According to the corporation, the decision to cancel
the oil delivery contracts to refineries was taken
after proper evaluation of the contract terms.
On the OPA arrangement, the firm said the current
agreement was not in the interest of Nigeria and the
national oil firm, a development that led to its
cancellation.
The NNPC also observed that the structure of the
agreement did not guarantee unimpeded supply of
petroleum products as delivery terms were not
optimal.
To address these lapses, the NNPC informed that it
had commenced the process of establishing
alternative OPA based on optimum yield pattern with
tender processing fees.


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My Presido!Those journalist's matter tire mi too.With all their our sources said or heard rumour that.They don't longer do investigative journalism.4x?U b baba.Carry go joor Sai Baba.

Hahahahaahaha!

You declared in 1975, so people should stop harassing you now.

So! Your assets in 1975 is the same till today. This man eehh

Fraudster

Scam

Buharu giving reasons for accountability and transparency but our journalists are too lazy for investigative journalism na only to they carry fake news then sabbyy