Bola Tinubu:'We enjoyed more money under GEJ'
A National leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has described the Goodluck Jonathan administration as corruption squad that milked the country's treasury dry.
He said under the Jonathan government, money "ran away" faster than Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt.
Tinubu
stated this on Thursday, November 16, 2017, while giving a keynote
speech at the presentation of ‘Making Steady, Sustainable Progressive
for Nigeria’s Peace and Prosperity: A mid-term scorecard on the
President Muhammadu Buhari Administration’.
The book presentation was held at the state house conference center, Abuja.
On
the Boko Haram insurgency, Tinubu said the terrorists would have taken
more territories, which would result in more deaths, if Jonathan was
still in power.
He said, "The prior government used the public treasury as a private hedge fund or a charity that limited its giving only to themselves.
"So
much money grew feet and ran away faster than Usain Bolt ever could.
That which could have been spent on national development was squandered
in ways that would cause the devil to blush.
"One
minister and her rogues’ gallery picked the pocket of this nation for
billions of dollars. While poor at governance, these people could give a
master thief lessons in the sleight of hand. In governance, they earned
a red card but in corruption l, they won the gold medal.
"It was not that our institutions had become infected by corruption. Corruption has become institutionalized."
The
former governor of Lagos State said that the ongoing anti-corruption
war, which many Nigerians have scored low, has set an axe to "the root of this dangerous tree."
"We
have much to do to combat this disease. Not only must we track down the
takers. In the long term, we must review the salaries of public
servants and create universal credits for our people to reduce
temptation."
Some Nigerians, especially the opposition, have described the Buhari anti-corruption war as selective and largely unsuccessful.
The
parameters by which the crusade was adjudged a failure is the inability
of the anti-corruption agencies to successfully prosecute high profile
corruption cases beyond the pages of newspapers.
The
opposition believes that Buhari is only witch-hunting members of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) while some of his allies, who are
allegedly corrupt, are untouchable.
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