Our plans for those who stole Nigeria’s money –Osinbajo

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday revealed what the present administration under President Muhammadu Buhari will continue to do to those who looted the nation’s treasury.

He said that the government will never cease from arresting and prosecuting those who stole the nation’s money regardless of whether the accused are convicted or not.

“We shall continue to arrest those who stole the nation’s money. They said we have not been able to convict anybody, we are not bothered. We shall continue to arrest and prosecute them. Let the case remain in court,” he said.

Osinbajo stated this when he spoke in Akure at the inauguration of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSME) Clinic, where he also suggested that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are fighting hard to return to power so that they will continue with their corruption.

He said, “The corruption is desperately fighting back so that they can come back to power. God will make it impossible.

“We had access to lesser money than the previous administration but what we had been able to do were far more than what they did. We are able to achieve this because we are spending what we have for the people.”

Osinbajo, who argued that the difference between President Buhari’s administration and previous ones is that the current government is honest and does not steal, boasted that the present administration has done more than what the opposition PDP did in 16 years despite the fact that government earnings have reduced by 60 per cent.

“This government wants to be honest with the people. The difference between us and the previous government is that we are not stealing public fund,” he said.

Osinbajo had also in another event on Thursday in Abuja, where he represented President Buhari, blamed past leaders, especially the immediate past administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, for neglecting the health sector between 2010 and 2015.

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In a speech on behalf of Buhari at the 58th Annual Delegates Meeting and scientific conference of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) in Abuja, he said, “It is no longer news that we inherited a troubled health care sector and the sector has been troubled for a long time. As one of the manifestations of the severely low spending on infrastructure generally and in health care in particular, I think that what we have seen through the years is a scandalously low level of funding for public health care in Nigeria.

“The level of public sector investment in health care in our recent past has in no way reflected our earnings, the high oil earnings, especially in the period between 2010 and 2015. That was when we earned the highest from oil prices.”

 

 

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