'I am honored to be a cabal in Buhari presidency' - SGF Babachir Lawal says
Secretary
to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, says he is honored
to be a member of a cabal in the President Buhari-led government. He
said this in an interview with Channels TV when he was asked to react to
claims in some quarters that a cabal has hijacked the Buhari-led
administration.
"I am honored to be a cabal in
this presidency. I have no apologies to make. If the President decides
that he wants a secretary to the government who is going to work with
him, coordinate the activities of his government, who will give him
advise, obviously that man should be able to have unfettered access to
the President. He is supposed to be able to give advise to the president
because he is with
the president on a daily basis in a manner that others might not have"he said
the president on a daily basis in a manner that others might not have"he said
Babachir also dismissed claims that the anti-corruption fight of this government is a witch hunt.
"Could
we have known for example, that somebody can walk into Central bank,
reverse his boot and leave with $2.2 billion raw cash. Could we have
known that somebody will sit down and embezzle 40 billion. Look at the
type of money they were dispatching. So we should keep quiet and let
Nigerians think that everything is ok? That there was no looting. We are
in the position we are in because people that came before us prefered
to carry our common patrimony and put it in their deposit accounts for
their wives and children. What type of country if we decide to play the
Ostrich. Nigerians most be told what we inherited and majority of
Nigerians I can assure you are in favor of what the government is doing.
Of course quite a few that were beneficiaries of this looting will make
noise. Majority of them that are beneficiaries have access to papers,
internet. We are chasing thieves. We are chasing people who took away
government money, our money. People who impoverished us"he said.
Watch the interview here...starts from 5.55 mark...
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