Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says
he will not stop talking about the corruption perpetrated under former
President Goodluck Jonathan.
He said this on Thursday at the
10th Bola Tinubu Colloquium in Lagos.
He said the President Muhammadu
Buhari administration is determined to change the negative perception about
Nigeria.
“Let me say that when we began
our journey in 2014, our party the APC was determined to change the dominant
narrative about our country. We were determined to ensure that the notion of a
country rich in natural resources and even richer in human capital but being
destroyed daily by grand corruption and the impunity of the looting of public
resources, we had to change that narrative,” he said.
“We saw a nation where a few in
office had so privatise the commonwealth that when oil prices where at their
highest and we were getting growth figures as high as 70 percent, majority of
the people remain extremely poor.
“In one of our campaign trips in
Zamfara state, Mr. President said, ‘look at the eyes of these people, what do
you see?’ Of course, he saw the poverty and desperation in their eyes. He said,
“’hey expect us to fix their poverty as soon as we get into office’.
“For the president on the
campaign trail, he emphasised three things: security, the economy and by
economy here, in particular the welfare of the people and corruption.
“To address the question of the
welfare of the people, we realised that if we waited for the economy to pick up
and then provide jobs for the people, especially young people, many would have
given up hope, many people would have ended up in all manner of illegal
activities.
“So we decided on two things, one
to invest heavily in agriculture to create jobs in the hinterland, provide
enough food locally and for all in the urban areas and I’m sure with our
agriculture programme, many will agree is already a success.
“Let me pause here to reiterate,
that from what I have seen in government in the past few years, the corruption
of the previous five years destroyed the economy.
“Every time we talk about
corruption, our opponent say, don’t talk about it, just do your own, don’t talk
about it. The Yorubas have an adage, ‘When the conversation comes to a matter
of tales, the frog will say let us skip that, don’t talk about it’. We will
talk about it. The reason we will talk about it, is that we must let our people
know we cannot afford to go this way again, never again should we allow this
system where people take the resources of this country, and steal the resources
of this country, used the resources against the people and at the same time
they want to continue in rulership.
“The second is that we as a party
and as your government, must show the difference between us and the previous
government that impoverished the nation.”
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