Playing host to members of the Governance Support Group (GSG), led by Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, at the State House yesterday, the president said he would scrutinise the 2017 fiscal document thoroughly and yank off any fraudulent insertion.
“I am waiting for the 2017 Budget to be brought to us in Council. Any sign of padding anywhere, I will remove it”, he told his guests.
The President said the government stood by its tripod campaign promises of securing the country, reviving the economy, and fighting corruption, but lamented that some people are deliberately turning blind eyes to prevailing realities in the country.
“They don’t want to reflect on the situation in which we are, economically. They want to live the same way; they simply want business as usual,” he said.
On violence that attend rerun elections in the country, the president said he “agonized over the elections in Kogi, Bayelsa and Rivers states.
Speaking on the anti-corruption cases before the courts, Buhari said he believed the cleansing currently going on “will lead to a better judiciary. When people are sentenced, Nigerians will believe that we are serious.”
President Buhari equally told his guests that the progress being made in agriculture and exploitation of solid minerals gives a lot of hope.
“Our grains go up to Central African Republic, to Burkina Faso, but they can’t buy all the grains harvested this year. And next season should be even better.”
Speaking on behalf of members of GSG, Hon. Nwajiuba said the government had succeeded to a large extent on the security and anti-corruption fronts, adding that the group was positive that the economy would soon experience a turnaround, “as the government is working very hard in that direction.”
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