Nigeria has no business being poor –Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has blamed the poverty level in the country on mis-governance and lack of transparency.
He insisted that with the human and natural resources that the country has, it is not supposed to be classified as a poor country.
“As blessed as we are as a nation, Nigerians have no business being classified as poor. Yet, through the greed of some unpatriotic few, our commonwealth has been badly pillaged in the name of public service.
“Our ability as a nation to create wealth has increasingly been hampered by the lack of prudence, transparency and honesty in the management of public resources by some of those entrusted with the duty of governance at all levels in the past, so much that in the midst of plenty, Nigerians are now suffering great deprivation.
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“This should not be allowed to continue. The project called Nigeria must be given our all. The nation ought and must leave the throes of poverty and under-development because I believe we are naturally destined for greatness,” the president said.

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The president who spoke on Tuesday at the opening of the 45th Annual Conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) in Abuja, promised to take all the necessary measures to remove the tag of ‘poor nation’ from the country.
Represented at the event by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Mrs. Anastasia Nwaobia, the president called for a collective effort of Nigerians to fight the menace.
He said he was hopeful that Nigeria would soon experience a change because his administration was resolute in its desire to effect a change in the nation’s value system.

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