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Arms Deal: Convicts’ll Forfeit Property To FG – Buhari by todayng: 12:03pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
Amid concerns over the dwindling fortunes of the economy, President Muhammadu Buhari at the weekend assured that despite the fall in oil price, measures taken to block revenue leakages would ensure enough cash to fund the 2016 N6 trillion budget. The President presented the national budget to the joint session of the National Assembly last Tuesday in Abuja. He said anybody convicted in the $2.1billion arms deal would forfeit his/her property to the Federal Government. According to him, Nigeria is not poor but noted that the problem had been leadership which did not take seriously the need to curb corruption. Speaking on BBC Hausa service on Christmas eve, he said by the time his government blocks all the leakages, there would be enough fund to run the country despite the fall in oil price. His words: “Remember during the campaigns, we said Nigeria is facing three things and nobody disputed that assertion. Firstly; there was widespread insecurity, war in the North- East, while the country’s oil was being stolen at random in the South. Secondly, there is massive unemployment, 62 per cent of the nation’s population are youth from the age of 35 years downward; most of them are unemployed, including those who went to school and those who did not, that is a serious problem. “Therefore, it has become necessary to restore peace and create employment. That is why we are returning to agriculture and mineral resources. Thirdly, bribery and corruption are basically suffocating the country. If we don’t kill these monsters, this country would go down. “That is why those who stole monies meant for arms procurement and shared the fund among themselves are being arrested and are being shown documents, so that they would be asked to refund the money or face prosecution; we would use those documents to prove what they stole, collect all the assets acquired from the proceeds and then jail them,” he said. He regretted that his government inherited N1.5 trillion domestic debt, saying that when foreign debt is added, it totals about N2.2 trillion. “It is generally believed that a fish begins to rot from the head; once the head is rotten, the whole body is also rotten. We have tried to remove all the heads of the organisations, and most of the lieutenants have been changed. “A lot is happening in this government that people do not appear to understand; many permanent secretaries of ministries have been changed; we used to have 42 ministers, now we have 36 because the Constitution requires that each state of the federation must have a minister; we used to have 42 ministries, now we have 24. “Everybody knows Nigeria is not a poor country, we are rich, and we have human resources, the problem had been that leadership did not take seriously, curbing corrupt tendencies,” he said. On the N5,000 the All Progressives Congress (APC) -led government promised to pay the poor and vulnerable people, he said it is not possible for everybody to benefit from the gesture. He explained that the Federal Government will collaborate with the states and local governments in effecting the execution of the programme. “At the local government level, almost everyone knows each other. It would be easy to identify those to give who would go into trading and how to get it back. It would be like a cooperative and we all know how it operates. “Also, state governments would identify those who have capacity to employ more people and all we need to do is to empower them. Our people already know how to go about implementing these modalities to create employment for the citizens”, he said. On the December deadline for defeating Boko Haram, President Buhari said his government may not achieve full success at the end of the month, but noted that if people would be fair, they would know that the Nigerian Army has basically met the deadline and are winning the war. He said: “I want people to understand that after I settled down and got good grasp of what the country is going through, we removed all the service chiefs and appointed new ones. We also undertook an investigation and found out how the monies meant for arms procurement were diverted and shared by officials in the last administration,” the President noted. https://www.today.ng/news/national/58082/arms-deal-convictsll-forfeit-property-to-fg-buhari |
Re: Arms Deal: Convicts’ll Forfeit Property To FG – Buhari by braine(m): 12:05pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
Good. |
Re: Arms Deal: Convicts’ll Forfeit Property To FG – Buhari by Trailblazer1(m): 12:05pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
With the exception of buhari, who is the FG |
Re: Arms Deal: Convicts’ll Forfeit Property To FG – Buhari by urbanmonk: 12:07pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
Buhari will also forfeit his Asokoro mansion. Pretender-in-chief! 1 Like |
Re: Arms Deal: Convicts’ll Forfeit Property To FG – Buhari by Nobody: 12:08pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
Including the people wey chop $300k yam 1 Like |
Re: Arms Deal: Convicts’ll Forfeit Property To FG – Buhari by funnynation(m): 12:10pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
300k nd suv |
Re: Arms Deal: Convicts’ll Forfeit Property To FG – Buhari by Nobody: 12:12pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
Being a wailer does not mean i will not support other corrupt wailing wailers nd lieing liers to go to jail...... Thank you pmb for I choose to wail with sense.... #wws 2 Likes |
Re: Arms Deal: Convicts’ll Forfeit Property To FG – Buhari by Trailblazer1(m): 12:14pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
masterchi: urbanmonk: funnynation: He has returned his share to the FG(himself) |
Re: Arms Deal: Convicts’ll Forfeit Property To FG – Buhari by Achuwa1(m): 12:15pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
Is Dasuki the only person tht is corrupt in nigeria ? there are still many others tht have stolen from the govt & are yet to be investigated. or is it only Dasuki u will say is corrupt in nigeria ? abeg we need fresh names coz we are tired of hearing abt daauki,moreover the ppl tht funded ur campaign stole from their state coffers to do tht,so investigate them aswel & other corrupt politicians in ur regime |
Re: Arms Deal: Convicts’ll Forfeit Property To FG – Buhari by dikeigbo2(m): 12:44pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
Dear President, you are 200% correct .its a very welcomed decision, please don't spare any body involved in this senseless looting, let the seized properties be prudently managed for our overall interest,...no plea bargaining,,just outright conviction and prosecution.....don't be selective, don't tribalistic, shun favouritism on this onerous task of nation building ,dear President pls be weary of these hawks extending their hands of fellowship to you,,with all sincerity, we will be successful, posterity will not forget you after you might have gone. Thanks and God bless you Insha Allah |
Re: Arms Deal: Convicts’ll Forfeit Property To FG – Buhari by Tinubutoto: 1:37pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
ds man sound as if he is d court that will determine the punishment. or is it that the Act they have said to violated has no punishment section. pls someone should tutor this man on what democracy is, let the court determine what punishment they will face jn accordance with the provisions of the law. |
Re: Arms Deal: Convicts’ll Forfeit Property To FG – Buhari by simonlee(m): 1:55pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
I just dey look this Buhari with one eye since. Shey na him holy pass. Him be judge and jury on top every matter wey arise. All these old people and their problematic personality |
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