President Buhari said on Wednesday said the era of free money had gone for good as he inaugurated road and drainage projects in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara.
A 20km township road and 40km drainages in Tsafe Local Government amounting to N2.1 billion and a 75-kilometre Wanke- Danjigba-Kucheri-Kigama-Bilbis Road with seven bridges valued eight billion naira were inaugurated yesterday by the president.
He vowed that his administration would enthrone good governance through vigorous prosecution of the ongoing war against corruption in the country. he insisted that the ongoing crusade against corruption is not aimed at humiliating anyone but rather meant to recover all looted fund to be put to public use.
Nigerians in general to join his administration’s efforts in ensuring that the change desired was well delivered.
“As the people of the state are aware the change agenda was central issue of our 2015 electioneering campaign.
“Since this administration’s assumption of office in May 2015, the journey to fix the country and restore the hope of the common man in the Nigerian project has begun in earnest.
“You have all agreed to join me and work as agents of change, the challenge before all of us therefore is translating the change into reality.
“I,therefore, wish to call on every one to think closely about the Nigerian situation.
“There is no easy money to throw around, we must go back to farming, livestock rearing so that we could develop the industries.
“We must put our hands on deck to ensure success of our mission in engineering Nigeria.
“If efforts were made in the past to diversify the economy from our absolute reliance on a single commodity, we would not have found ourselves in our current situation.
“I assure all Nigerians that the grim economic situations are passing phase which all societies go through,’’
Buhari he added that. “Part of the reasons that I’m personally here is to flag off the military operations aimed at routing out the menace of cattle rustling and armed bandits, not only in the state, but in the entire axis of North-West.
“I also wish to reiterate to the people of Zamfara and to Nigerians in general, the commitment of this administration to restoring sanity in governance.
“We shall continue to prosecute the war against corruption. We do not wish or desire to humiliate or disgrace anybody, but we must recover stolen fund and put them to collective public use,’’ he said.
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