Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on
Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, has clarified his comment that it was
better for people to surrender their land or get killed.
He spoke on Wednesday on an
Arsise TV programme anchored by Reuben Abati.
Adesina, who stood by his
comment, said: “Twist and slams. You know you can take a small part of a video
to also justify what you want to achieve. You won’t take the totality of what
the speaker said.
“There is the totality of what l
said which l stand by and that was, ‘anybody that has land, talking of states
not even individuals – any state that has land and offers it, the federal
government will take it and build ranches.’
“It is a coalition of willing
people but anybody that says ‘we don’t have land,’ as Benue had said, some
other states also said ‘we don’t have land,’ it is not by compulsion. It is not
by force. But then, l now recalled what Obasanjo said when he came out of jail.
He said ‘it’s better to be a
farmer on the soil than under the soil’ and l then said, ‘okay, those who said
we don’t have land, is it not better to be alive on your land than to be dead
because you chose to hold on to land?’ So, that is the totality of what l said
and l stand by it today, tomorrow and any day.”
Reminded that Nigerians were
unhappy with that comment, Adesina said that was so “because some people took
the latter part of what l said and began to share it out of malice and ill
will.”
On government ‘silence’ on the
alleged certificate scandal involving the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi
Adeosun, Adesina said: “When you said the government has done nothing, that is
not quite right because nothing means nothing.
“Something had been done, which
the Minister of Information told the country. NYSC is looking into it. NYSC is
the relevant agency to look into it and when it has concluded its
investigations, it will come out and tell us its findings.”
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ReplyDeleteNYSC is investigating the exemption scandal! How long will it take them to do this?
We are talking about the commission of a crime here. What kind of responsible government can condone this kind of rubbish. What about Okoi Obla who forged his WAEC and is still in government as an adviser to the president on corruption issues? This regime will go down in history as the most morally bankrupt regime in the history of our nation. They should clear the rot immediately.