{"id":59840,"date":"2017-10-13T17:17:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T16:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=59840"},"modified":"2017-10-13T17:17:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T16:17:05","slug":"presidency-says-ignorant-mischievous-people-twisted-world-bank-presidencys-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/presidency-says-ignorant-mischievous-people-twisted-world-bank-presidencys-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency Says &#8220;Ignorant and Mischievous People Twisted World Bank Presidency&#8217;s Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari sparked a furor\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_535675256\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Thursday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in the media that he<br \/>\nhad requested a concentration of the World Bank\u2019s intervention efforts in<br \/>\nthe northern part of Nigeria during a meeting with the bank\u2019s boss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ignorant and mischievous people, who twist everything for their vile<br \/>\npurposes, are making it seem that it was a calculated attempt to give the<br \/>\nNorth an unfair advantage over other parts of Nigeria, said Femi Adesina,<br \/>\nSpecial Adviser to the President on media and publicity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who specialize in a deliberate twisting of information have wailed<br \/>\nand raged endlessly on the news item credited to the World Bank Group<br \/>\nPresident, Jim Yong Kim, who disclosed in Washington DC, United States of<br \/>\nAmerica, that President Muhammadu Buhari had requested a concentration of<br \/>\nthe Bank\u2019s intervention efforts in the northern part of Nigeria,<br \/>\nparticularly in the North-east.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth of the matter is that President Buhari, right from his first<br \/>\nweek in office in June, 2015, had reached out to the G-7 in Germany that<br \/>\nNigeria needed help to rebuild the North-east, which had been terribly<br \/>\ndevastated by insurgency. He said the country would prefer help in terms<br \/>\nof rebuilding of infrastructure, rather than cash donation, which may end<br \/>\nup being misappropriated. In concert with Governors of the region, a<br \/>\ncomprehensive list of needed repairs was sent to the G-7 leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Buhari simply did what a caring leader should do. He took the<br \/>\nbattle to the insurgents, broke their backs, and then sought for help to<br \/>\nrebuild, so that the people could have their lives back. Should that then<br \/>\nelicit the negative commentary that has trailed the disclosure from the<br \/>\nWorld Bank? Not at all, except from insidious minds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Buhari has a pan-Nigerian mandate, and he will discharge his<br \/>\nduties and responsibilities in like manner. Any part of the country that<br \/>\nrequires special attention would receive it, irrespective of primordial<br \/>\naffinities, which narrow minded people have not been able to live above.<br \/>\nThis President will always work in the best interest of all parts of the<br \/>\ncountry at all times. Let ethnic warriors sheathe their swords.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, during a trip to Washington in 2015, and many other engagements<br \/>\nthat followed, President Buhari sought the help of the World Bank in<br \/>\nrebuilding the beleaguered North-east, which was then being wrested from<br \/>\nthe stranglehold of a pernicious insurgency. It was something always done<br \/>\nin the open, and which reflected the President\u2019s concern for the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose ululating over the disclosure by the President of the World Bank<br \/>\nshould be a bit reflective, and consider the ravages that the North-east<br \/>\nhas suffered since 2009, when the Boko Haram insurgency started. Schools,<br \/>\nhospitals, homes, entire villages, towns, cities, bridges, and other<br \/>\npublic utilities have been blown up, laid waste, and lives terminated in<br \/>\nexcess of 20,000, while widows and orphans littered the landscape. 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