Yesterday during his live programme on NTA, President Buhari said he
won't appoint men and women who lack integrity as ministers in his
cabinet.
"We will try as much as possible to avoid appointing hostages; by this, I
mean people who have been in the system but compromised their personal
and professional integrity. From what I have seen so far, we need very
patriotic Nigerians to be ministers; Nigerians that can work very hard
with knowledgeable experience; committed Nigerians to be in charge of
ministries. A lot of institutions in Nigeria are compromised, everybody
for himself and God for all of us. It is most unfortunate. We have
people, educated and experienced people, but everybody seems to be
working for himself on how much they could get away with as soon as
possible.
We have to look for technocrats and politicians. We
have to look out for decent people in this class to give them the
responsibility of being in charge of ministries and important
parastatals. It is taking so much time to appoint ministers because a
number of knowledgeable people have been compromised. They have been
compromised by people who will like to depend on them to damage our
economy and security; a lot of them have been compromised. The worst
thing that I think can happen is to get a compromised person to be in
charge of institutions.
There is no way he could be efficient or patriotic. Somebody behind the
scene will be manipulating him at the expense of the nation. This is
what we are trying to avoid and I assure you that so much damage has
been done to Nigeria. We cannot rush to give this responsibility to
people that have unfortunately been compromised. This is because there
is no way you can effectively supervise, let’s say 20 ministries, you
have to give it to people you trust and you allow them to perform
according to the Constitution of the country. If you appoint compromised
people, then we will be back to square one and Nigeria will be the
loser.” he said (Punch)
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