It was thumbs down for President Muhammadu Buhari’s information managers and self-indictment as the Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Malam Garba Shehu, said that they have failed in their assignment.
Shehu, who reacted on Monday to the growing criticisms of Buhari’s economic policies, said that had the information managers done their job well, Nigerians would have appreciated the laudable projects and reforms of the administration.
The administration’s information managers are led by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, Garba Shehu and the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina.
In a statement he issued in Abuja on Monday, Shehu said:
“There are many who say that this government’s economic strategy is unclear, whereas the previous government seemed well coordinated.
“I will make the confession that we, the officials hired to communicate government policies, which includes myself, have not done as well as we should have.
“The truth is that more than any other time before, there is a clear direction and strategy for achieving growth and development.
“Revisionists may not agree, but the truth of the matter is that the previous administration only had one issue, which was how to spend money (oil revenues and borrowed money),’’ he said.
The presidential aide added that the administration would soon extend its economic and financial reform to the 36 states of the federation.
According to Shehu, the Federal Government will force the state governments to reform their spending and build savings and investments.
Shehu added the approach would include blockage of leakages that allowed public revenue to be siphoned into private accounts.
The current probe into the finances of the military, according to him, was part of the reform aimed at curbing corruption in the armed forces.
He said: “Look at what a civilian administration is doing to the military, investigating their finances and accounts that the military could not do to themselves. Look at what the current administration is doing to sanitise the huge salary bill by eliminating payroll fraud.
“So far, the federal payroll has been rid of about 40,000 ghost workers. More than N8 billion stolen monthly has been saved.
“We are also saving on wasteful expenses like First Class travels and Private Jets for official trips.
“The Federal Government is not limiting the reforms to the centre, but forcing state governments to change their spending and build savings or investments,’’ he said.
Shehu said that the government is increasing spending on capital projects, especially on infrastructure to make the Nigerian businesses competitive and create jobs.
He said that if these things had been done when the oil price was as high as $140 per barrel, Nigeria would not be in the current mess.
“If PDP were still in power, they would have continued deceiving people by borrowing to fund, stealing and wastage and the problem would have simply been postponed for future generations to face,” he said.
Tuesday, 6 September 2016
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