Former presidential aide on
Wednesday lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, for
claiming that ex President Goodluck Jonathan planned to sack federal civil
servants.
“That his name is Garba does not
mean he should spew Garbage”, he retorted.
Omokri, in a statement, said
Nigerians were by now used to lies from Shehu, “whose latest lie prior to this,
was to claim that President Muhammadu Buhari is the first African President to
be received by US President, Donald Trump, at the White House”.
Omokri said: “We realize that
having nothing to boast of by way of achievements in job creation, the ever
reactionary Buhari administration has come up with a revisionist plan to blame
all its failings on former President Jonathan, but Nigerians have seen through
this hollowness.
“The fact remains that according
to the government owned and controlled Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, 10
million Nigerians have lost their jobs in the last three years of the Buhari
government.
“It should be noted that these
were jobs created by the Jonathan administration through innovative policies
like the Local Content Law, Youth With Innovation in Nigeria (YouWIN) scheme
and the Graduate Internship Scheme (GIS).
“Also, by building 165 Almajiri
schools all over northern Nigeria and 14 new federal universities built
nationwide and the over 500 schools that were renovated via the Universal Basic
Education Commission, UBEC and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), the
Jonathan government put hundreds of thousands of youths to work which
stimulated the economy and contributed to GDP growth.
“Then President Jonathan proved
that Nigerian youths are not ‘lazy’ by putting them to work. Sadly, Nigerian
youths cannot day the same of the current leadership.
“Nigerian workers may also
remember that it was former President Jonathan who on March 16, 2011 increased
the National Minimum Wage to ₦18,000 and extended the pay rise to the military
and paramilitary services, even as he increased the allowance of members of the
National Youth Service Corp to ₦19,800 monthly.
“It is indeed wicked for the
Buhari administration to now turn around and accuse a man who created the most
jobs in Nigeria’s history of wanting to sack workers.
“My advise to Garba Shehu is to
focus on telling Nigerians what his boss has achieved after three years in
office instead of casting blame on others.
“For instance, huge sums of money
have been offered to anyone who can name even one project initiated, started
and completed by the Buhari administration in the last three years.
“This blame game has gone on for
too long. Just yesterday (April 30, 2018), President Buhari blamed Muammar
Gaddafi for the spate of herdsmen killings.
“Buhari controls the, Army, Air
Force, Navy, Police, DSS, DIA, NIA and Civil Defense, yet he still blames a
dead Gaddafi for herdsmen killings. If Buhari can appoint dead men into boards,
I guess he should also be allowed to blame a dead man for bringing killers on
board.
“It only remains for President
Buhari to blame Idi Amin, Sadam Hussein, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Hosni
Mubarak, Said Bare, Pinochet, Manuel Noriega, Nicolae Ceausescu, Benito
Mussolini, Ferdinand Marcos, Samuel Doe, Charles Taylor and any other brutal
dictator that catches his fancy!
“Nigerian workers are warned that
if they re-elect a man who lost 10 million jobs in just three years, by the
time he is finished with Nigeria, the only jobs remaining in the country would
be the job of blaming others for the problems caused by President Buhari.”
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