Vice President Yemi Osinbajo revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration had spent a
total of N2.7 trillion on infrastructure since assuming office.
According to him, the Federal
Government is committed to ensuring that monies belonging to Nigerians are not
stolen but used for nation building.
Osinbajo also said the country
was earning 60 per cent less than it earned in the past 10 years, adding that despite
this low earning, the current administration has spent more in building
infrastructure than any other government in the country.
The Vice President made the
disclosure at the palace of the Ovie of Ughelli, Oharisi III during a courtesy
visit to the monarch on the enumeration exercise of the Trader Moni Scheme in
the Ughelli main market, which would commence disbursement in January 2019,
with 30,000 beneficiaries getting N10,000 each.
Accompanied by Minister of State
for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu; former Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel
Uduaghan; Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and Chief Great Ogboru, Osinbajo explained
that the Federal Government was focused on creating job opportunities for the
common man and youths in the country.
He said: “Our school feeding
programme is one of our Social Investment Programmes and I’m sure that in Delta
State, we are feeding about 400,000 children every day.
‘’The N-Power is a graduate
employment programme and we have 18,000 persons engaged in the state.Today,
N2.7 trillion is what we are spending on building infrastructure. The question
we ought to ask previous government is: where were they?
‘’What did they do with the
monies, if today we are still building the Itakpe-Warri railway line, which was
established 35years ago as well as Kaduna hydro project, which also was
established 40years ago?”
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