The
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr
(Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala should speak up on the allegation of missing
N30 trillion under her watch made by a former Governor of Central Bank
of Nigeria, Professor Charles Soludo, the All Progressives Congress
Presidential Campaign Organization said.
A statement by the campaign media and publicity director Malam Garba
Shehu, condemned condemned the blanket of secrecy surrounding the
transactions that led to the waste of the country’s scarce resources
under the Jonathan administration.
“Dr (Mrs) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala should speak up on this allegation of
epic proportion. She has the responsibility to give an account of the
management of the nation’s resources under her watch”, the Buhari
campaign spokesperson said.
“It is not enough for Okonjo-Iweala to boast of rebasing the economy
and declaring it the largest in Africa, without a concurrent reduction
in poverty and unemployment or infrastructure development in the
country.
“It is ironic that rather than tackle the accusation from Soludo, the
Finance Minister has been canvassing a stance in the media that
Nigerians should brace up for a hard time to come as the economy is
nose-diving”, he said.
The statement added: “only last year, the workforce of several MDAs
could not receive their salaries to celebrate the Yuletide season due to
government inefficiency. A recent African Union report also alleges
that billions of Naira is illicitly taken out of our economy annually.
“Thirty Trillion Naira will fund the generation of 22,000 megawatts
of electricity, which is well in excess of the current national power
demand of 15,000 megawatts, among other pressing needs”.
The APCPCO said if General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) is given the
mandate to pilot the affairs of the country, he will wage an unrelenting
battle against corruption and wastages in the system and that the
recouped monies would go a long way in funding some of the initiatives
of an APC administration.
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