President Mohammadu Buhari may have commenced the probing of past
\nGovernment of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Musa Yar’Adua and
\nGoodluck Jonathan, all of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who ruled for
\nsixteen years.<\/p>\n
Buhari who was speaking with Nigerians in Tehran, Iran said even though
\nsome officials of the Jonathan’s administration have started returning
\nstolen funds, they were not enough. He did not name those who have
\nreturned any funds.<\/p>\n
“We want to have everything back \u2013 all that they took by force in 16
\nyears,” the President told Nigerians in Iran.<\/p>\n
President Buhari said that the necessity for compliance with due process
\nof the law was responsible for the delay in the prosecution of the looters
\nof the country’s economy.<\/p>\n
He noted however, that the “the day of reckoning is gradually coming.”<\/p>\n
He also revealed that a number of past officials had begun the voluntary
\nreturn of stolen funds but expressed the view that his government was not
\nsatisfied with tokens.<\/p>\n
On issue of Power Supply, the President said that the sabotage and theft
\nof gas were undermining the efforts of the government to increase power
\nsupply in the country.<\/p>\n
To tackle the problem, the President announced that existing Military
\nTask-Forces will be reorganized to ensure a successful protection of the
\nnetwork of gas pipelines.<\/p>\n
The President, who said this Tuesday<\/span><\/span> in a question-and-answer interaction He told his audience that Nigeria had everything it takes to generate “Power is a running battle because the saboteurs are still there. We have He also cited another factor as the reduced role of the government in the He assured that the Military Task-Forces with representation from the President Buhari also updated the Nigerians in Tehran on the efforts of In a response to a question on the need to improve healthcare delivery, He also enumerated several steps being taken towards the revival of The President said that something urgent will be done about the bad President Mohammadu Buhari may have commenced the probing of past Government of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, all of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who ruled…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nwith the Nigerian community in Tehran, the Islamic Republic of Iran, noted
\nthat “although some improvement in power had been recorded in the recent
\nperiod,” sabotage of pipeline installations continued to be a problem.<\/p>\n
\nenough power.<\/p>\n
\nthe potential. We have gas, we have qualified people but we are contending
\nwith a lot of saboteurs who go and blow up installations. When gas is
\npumped to Egbin and such other power stations, thieves and saboteurs such
\nas the militants cut those supplies,” President Buhari said.<\/p>\n
\nsector due to the privatization of the institutions under the Power
\nHolding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, in the process of which, he said, the
\nfacilities “have been sold to a number of interest groups.”<\/p>\n
\nArmy, Navy, Air Force, the Police and other security agencies will be
\nreconstituted to secure the pipelines. “Supplies will become steady; there
\nwill be less sabotage as we secure the pipelines,” he stressed.<\/p>\n
\nhis administration towards ending the Boko Haram insurgency and terrorism
\nin the country, explaining that a lot had been achieved following the
\nreorganization of the military top command, followed by increased
\nequipment supply and training.<\/p>\n
\nthe President said that efforts had been intensified towards ridding the
\ncountry of fake drugs and fake doctors, and also what he called “the
\ndisgraceful aspects” manifested by “baby factories.”<\/p>\n
\neducation from primary school level to university. On the creation of
\njobs, he placed the prevailing joblessness in the country at the door-step
\nof the last administration which he blamed for giving “a devastating blow
\nto the economy through corruption and incompetence.”<\/p>\n
\ncondition of roads, citing the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway as one to be
\naddressed from next week by the Minister of Works, Power and Housing,
\nBabatunde Fashola, who sat next to him at the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"