Elder statesman and former
governor of Old Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, has said that President Muhammadu
Buhari makes him sad because nothing has worked under his administration.
The former governor said this
while fielding questions from Sun newspapers on situations and events that made
him sad in the country last year.
He said, “One of them is the
inability of this government to perform. Because everybody expected this
government to make a difference but they have not. In some areas they are even
making things worse.”
Speaking on the New Year speech
of Buhari, the former governor insisted, “I am not impressed in any way. How
can I be when the ordinary people in a country that produce petrol, cannot buy
it at a reasonable price?
“As I am talking to you now in
most parts of Nigeria, a litre of fuel sells for N200. Our economy, in the name
of privatisation has deteriorated so much. Why has the situation become so bad?
It is because of the foreign manipulations that want to hand the leading role
of the economy to the private sector.
“Our economy was stable and
progressive when we had the leading role of the state in the economy. Back then
one dollar was sold at one naira. Presently, there is nothing to enable the
government to control prices, corruption and unemployment.
“How can you expect the private
sector to solve this problem? Whether we like it or not the role of the public
sector must be strengthened. So that everybody must make public interest first
and the enlightened self interest second. There is no other way round.”
Balarabe also maintained that the
country must be restructured, adding that people talking against it were the
ones stealing and stagnating the country.
He continued, “Those people that
are talking against restructuring are the ones who are stealing public funds
using the institutions we have today particularly the leading role of private
sector.
“Look at the scandals in the oil
industry, pension fund in everywhere. This stealing has been facilitated by the
attempt to privatize everything and bring about minimal government input.
“That is the situation in which
government can only just oversee key economic sectors.”
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