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President Muhammadu Buhari has in his first media chat revealed his plans on fighting corruption, Boko Haram and other issues. Below are excerpts of his chat on Thursday which had on the panel Kayode Akintemi, Channels TV; Dr. Ngozi Anyaegbulam, Media World International; Munir Dan Ali, Daily Trust and Ibanga Isine, Premium Times.



SELECTION OF MINISTERS
“I don’t think I tolerate corruption, I don’t think I picked anybody that I know will embarrass my government. But if you have any evidence about any of my ministers, I accept responsibility for the 36 ministers that I have. I don’t think I took anybody among the ministers who has got a case in court. Tell me one out of the 36. I don’t think I will deliberately make that mistake.”





CHIBOK GIRLS
“We are still keeping our options open. If a credible leadership of Boko Haram can be established and they tell us where those girls are, we are prepared to negotiate with them without any pre-condition. This we have made absolutely clear. But while they are keeping the Chibok girls, they must not get away with the idea that we will not attempt to secure the rest of Nigeria.



“We have no firm intelligence on where they are physically and what condition they are in. But what we believe from our intelligence, they keep taking the girls around, they are not keeping all the girls in one place, we don’t know how many divisions they made of them and where they are.



SHEIKH EL-ZAKZAKY
“I expect the Kaduna State Government to set up a judicial inquiry because it happened in Kaduna, in one of the cities and it has been there for the last twenty years from what I have been reading from papers. They will occupy a federal highway, sometimes from Kano to Kaduna. This is what I heard.



“We have a system of investigation, the military that was involved too have a tradition of investigation and I am the head of the federal government, I have to wait for the official report before I can come out as head of the federal government and make a statement. So I am allowing the Army and the Kaduna State government to submit their report of inquiry. Meanwhile it does not mean that the police, the SSS and other directorate involved are not doing their own part of constitutional role.



“Unfortunately it is very serious. How can any group proclaim statehood in a state? I don’t want to speak about it in details now, I better leave it still after the report of the inquiry but there are a number of clips I saw, where some excited teenagers were visually hitting the chest of a general, mounting road blocks and threatening them with missiles.



STOLEN MONEY RECOVERED
“Money has been recovered but whatever we recover, has to end up in court because I feel personally that Nigerians are entitled to know the truth and the truth will be what the court has discovered by the submission made to them in terms of documentation and the documentation includes the bank statement of where our money was lodged, when it was lodged and how much. Whether it is petrol from NNPC or Customs and Excise or money directly from the Central Bank of Nigeria.”



N5,000 STIPEND
“When my VP was quoted, how can I come here and disown it? First, I believe in getting facts, how many are involved? How are we going to do it? Is it state by state or geo-political zone by geo-political zone? In trying to get the bottom of the problem, a lot of work has to be done and if it is undertaken, we have to look at it very well.”



SAMBO DASUKI
“Technically, if you see the kind of atrocities those people committed, if they jump bail? I am sorry to say this publicly…the former president just wrote to the governor of the CBN and said give N40 billion to someone while you have two million Internally Displaced Persons, what kind of country do you want to run?




BIAFRA, NNAMDI KANU
“The one you called Kanu, do you know he has two passports? One Nigerian, one British and he came to this country without using any passport? Do you know that he brought sophisticated equipment into this country and started broadcasting for Radio Biafra? There is a treasonable charge against him and I hope the court will listen to the case.



“They say they are marginalised but they have not defined the extent of marginalisation. Who is marginalising them? Where? Do you know? Choosing a minister is not a matter of ethnicity, it is a matter of the constitution. I am limited by what the constitution says that there must be a member of the executive council from each state. There is a lot of partisan politics in it. Who is the Minister of State for Petroleum? Is he not an Igbo? Who is the governor of the CBN? Is he not an Igbo? Who is the Minister of Labour? Who is the Minister of Science and Technology? What do they want? I stood elections and I won, I am limited by the constitution, I have a member of every state in the Federal Executive Council and I have to listen to them when I sit as chairman. That is the limit the constitution gave me”.



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Ok

We are just watching Baba. Believe me, if you keep on tossing us like coins, we will kick you out next election.
Better start working.

Wailers , come oooo



See food for una

Ok..Noted

Chinachriss:
We are just watching Baba. Believe me, if you keep on tossing us like coins, we will kick you out next election.
Better start working.

Who are the "we"
The last time I checked I think 5% can't have a major impact in any setting.

How has the president directive of a president to CBN to disburse money taken out of context an atrocity? His response on impunity is simply an affirmation of buhari being the law! Very poor response for a president in a democracy!

well, by far and large, I strongly believe for the first time in over a decade, Nigerians can now enjoy good governance..To an extent, we have a feeling of forwardness hovering around the nation!!!

For the dullard and show me my certificate crew, my Sai Buhari answered all the questions with a touch of brilliance.



For the 5000 Naira crew, you guys would soon start receiving your own share on like the Sure-P scam.



For the wailing wailers association of Nigeria, keep on wailing and pretend not to see the big positive changes.



For the Amaechi is corrupt crew, still waiting to get any reasonable evidence even from Wike there master to prove that our honorable minister of transport is corrupt.



For the Nnamdi Kanu and Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky crew, you guys found out the hard way that you pay for breaking the law irrespective of your ethnic group or religion.


For the Hijab crew, your days are numbered.


Sai Buhari!!!

I think our president has good intention but good intention without actual fruition can be frustrating to the citizens. We are cautiously keeping the faith though.

Can u start working on a deplected foundation? Because if u work on such foundation, in ur present, the building would start collapsing.

Truly, we now have a president

tuniski:
How has the president directive of a president to CBN to disburse money taken out of context an atrocity? His response on impunity is simply an affirmation of buhari being the law! Very poor response for a president in a democracy!

so because he is the President, he should start dolling out funds from the treasury like Nigeria is an "Owanbe Party" That's the hallmark of highhandedness!!!

When has coming into a country without a passport become a treasonable felony? I know of many Chadians and Nigeriens caught with ammunitions but none has been charged with treason. Even if Kanu committed the crime of treason, why did DSS not charge him so since last three months he was arrested? Why was he charged with terrorism instead? I have noticed that the long years of military rule has disconfigured the reasoning ability of Nigerians that they cannot reason properly. This shows that impunity will never be dealt with in Nigeria. Today it is Kanu and Dasuki. Tomorrow, it might be one of those who sing his praises today. And the circle continues. When then will true democratic tenets be enthroned in our beloved country?

PMB till 2099. Haters go and hug transformer

Segadem:
Who are the "we"
The last time I checked I think 5% can't have a major impact in any setting.

At least, I am among the 5% that voted for Buhari. At least, I had my reasons for endorsing him.

This man is incredibly daft, and it's embarrassing to have such a disgraceful character as president of this great country. How can he ignorantly or perhaps mischievously describe The Minister of State for Petroleum and the CBN governor, both from Delta State, as Igbo?

YoursGEJ:
PMB till 2099. Haters go and hug transformer

Those haters mehn!

Is dat all

Government of much talk less action

sai baba

olasmith10:
so because he is the President, he should start dolling out funds from the treasury like Nigeria is an "Owanbe Party" That's the hallmark of highhandedness!!!

dumb qs is cbn not gvt bank.

GEJ was a disaster.

hedonistic:
This man is incredibly daft, and it's embarrassing to have such a disgraceful character a sores identify of this great country. How can he ignorantly or perhaps mischievously describe The Minister of State for Petroleum and the CBN governor, both from Delta State, as Igbo?

iranu! No be u dey divide ursev? Hausa, yoruba, ibo where delta match? fix it. What u people do not knw is that al other ethnics had gotten different sub -tribe bt we learnt to dealt with it. U people sud copy us na. Get this straight hausa, igbo and yoruba period

Heroic sharing that's making some money hungry folks still agitating for Biafra

OrlandoOwoh:
GEJ was a disaster.

As President, PMB should not approve and release any fund for security ooo.

So Jonathan gave one person more money than the nation has in its external reserves and the CBN sourced it and gave this person. The nation's economy did not come to a grinding halt. He might as well have said my father is the President of America and some people who love the President will accept it hook , line and sinker.This is how he went to America and reeled out ridiculous figures of oil theft giving figures way above the total output as what had been stolen daily. We are in deep shit

tuniski:
How has the president directive of a president to CBN to disburse money taken out of context an atrocity? His response on impunity is simply an affirmation of buhari being the law! Very poor response for a president in a democracy!

To collect 40billion Naira in cash and disburse. That is against CBN rules, BPP rules, Procurement act and simple morality.
Nigerians are born cowards that is why the truth will always rankles them. This is low minded , mediocre corruption of the Idiocy Amin type and you know it

hedonistic:
This man is incredibly daft, and it's embarrassing to have such a disgraceful character as president of this great country. How can he ignorantly or perhaps mischievously describe The Minister of State for Petroleum and the CBN governor, both from Delta State, as Igbo?

They are Ibo. Ibos call them Ibos. Biafrans call them Ibos.
If you ask an IPOB member to draw a map of Biafra those places the ministers come from will be inside the map.
We have one of the best Presidents in history it is you posting this who is not intelligent enough to be a Nigerian which is bad.
If you don't know enough to be posting stuff then don't.

Adminisher:
To collect 40billion Naira in cash and disburse. That is against CBN rules, BPP rules, Procurement act and simple morality.
Nigerians are born cowards that is why the truth will always rankles them. This is low minded , mediocre corruption of the Idiocy Amin type and you know it

no one will support corruption knowing its devastating effect. However, doing summary conviction of people without due trial no matter how one may perceive the magnitude of allegation iis equally judicial corruption! We hear 2.1bn dollar arms deal but, officially the charges combined are less than 40bn naira . That though still massive but let the court do their job.