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FIRE FOR FIRE!!!– PROMINENT NIGERIANS BLAST LAI MOHAMMED – BUHARI HAS NO ECONOMIC POLICY
SOME eminent Nigerians and employers of labour, yesterday, disagreed with Information Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed over President Muhammadu Buhari’s economic policy.
While the Information Minister said,
yesterday, that President Buhari’s administration was on the right
track and that there was no alternative to what it was doing
economically, some eminent Nigerians disagreed, insisting that the
economy could be run better.
Buhari Speaking at a meeting with
members of staff of the Nigerian Embassy in Madrid, Spain, during his
two-day official visit to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation,
UNWTO, according to NAN, Mohammed said: “I believe that we are on the
right track, there will be some pains, but there is no alternative to
what we are doing.” He claimed that the administration had fulfilled its
campaign promises to address insecurity, fix the economy and fight
corruption.
In the area of security, Mohammed said
when President Buhari came on board, 14 of the 20 local government areas
of Borno State, four in Adamawa and three in Yobe were under the
sovereign authority of Boko Haram. He said the proactive measures and
soft diplomacy with neighbouring African countries, the U.S., France and
the G-8 had helped the country to “decisively deal with Boko Haram.”
“Today, all the major highways leading to Maiduguri are open and about
two months ago, the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, played a league
match in Maiduguri stadium,” he said. On the renewed agitations in the
Niger-Delta and parts of the South-East, the minister reassured that the
government would not marginalise any part of the country and assured
that economic development would go round to everyone. He stressed that
no amount of economic reforms put in place could work unless the monster
of corruption was successfully dealt with.
Mohammed said the administration’s fight
against corruption was not selective, and that the government was not
probing the 2015 elections campaign funds of Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP. The minister’s take on the economic strides of the government
elicited sharp response from Second Republic politician, Chief Guy
Ikokwu; Second Republic lawmaker,Dr. Junaid Mohammed; the Nigeria
Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA; and National President of
Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Alhaji Yerima Shettima.
There is no economic policy in place
– Ikokwu Decrying the level of poverty in the country, Chief Ikokwu
wondered the kind of economic policy that had been in place in the last
14 months. Ikokwu His words: “The nation is totally confused with regard
to the economic policy. If there was clear economic policy, we won’t be
in recession. If the policy is market-oriented, instead of
government-oriented, the private sector would have readjusted one year
after the government took off, there would not have been maximum
devaluation of the currency. “It has been one year without an economic
policy. Why should there be imbalance in the economy if there is
economic policy? Full implementation of the budget is yet to begin.
Economically, the nation is disillusioned and the complaints are
everywhere.” Buhari has no economic policy —
Mohammed Second Republic lawmaker, Dr.
Junaid Mohammed, said President Buhari and Minister of Information, Lai
Mohammed should stop deceiving Nigerians that this government had any
economic policy. He said: “As far as I am concerned, President Buhari
and Lai Mohammed are paying lip service to the economy by telling
Nigerians they have a policy. Today, I cannot see anything and several
Nigerians cannot see any policy in place. Dr Junaid Mohammed So, why
should Nigerians support this so called policy that they do not know and
why should they believe Buhari and Lai Mohammed?
“They talk about diversifying the
economy but I can tell you that the same fertilizer I bought for N4,000
last year is now N9,000 this year. If this is what they call
diversification, then they are talking nonsense. When there is no
insecticide and no better harvest, what are they diversifying the
economy to. “I am not persuaded by that lie by Lai Mohammed.” Nigerians
are sick and tired of the excuses made by the federal government in
fixing the nation’s ailing economy. “This is part of the excuses we have
seen from this government.
After coming out to state that the
previous government failed, the APC promised that it was coming to make
things right, but to our surprise, the party is now coming out to tell
us that it did not know the extent of the damage done by the past
government. “I must tell you that Nigerians have not had it this bad and
this is worrying. When the Federal Government is saying there is no
alternative, is it implying that this is a case of incompetence on the
part of the government or lack of experience? I see this as an excuse.”
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