President Muahmmadu Buhari on Wednesday said
that the era of free and easy money in the country
had gone for good.
Buhari made this known when he inaugurated road
and drainage projects in Tsafe Local Government
Area of Zamfara.
He inaugurated the 20km township road and 40km
drainages in Tsafe Local Government amounting to
N2.1 billion.
The president also inaugurated the 75-kilometre
Wanke- Danjigba-Kucheri-Kigama-Bilbis Road with
seven bridges valued eight billion nairaNara.
He vowed that his administration would enthrone
good governance through vigorous prosecution of
the ongoing war against corruption in the country.
Buhari pledged to continue the ongoing war against
corruption, noting that corruption had slow the
growth of the country.
According to him, the ongoing crusade against
corruption is not aimed at humiliating anyone but
rather meant to recover all looted fund to be put to
public use.
He, therefore, called on the people of the state and
Nigerians in general to join his administration’s
efforts in ensuring that the change desired was well
delivered.
“As the people of the state are aware the change
agenda was central issue of our 2015 electioneering
campaign.
“Since this administration’s assumption of office in
May 2015, the journey to fix the country and restore
the hope of the common man in the Nigerian
project has begun in earnest.
“You have all agreed to join me and work as agents
of change, the challenge before all of us therefore is
translating the change into reality.
“I,therefore, wish to call on every one to think
closely about the Nigerian situation.
“There is no easy money to throw around, we must
go back to farming, livestock rearing so that we
could develop the industries.
“We must put our hands on deck to ensure success
of our mission in engineering Nigeria.
“If efforts were made in the past to diversify the
economy from our absolute reliance on a single
commodity, we would not have found ourselves in
our current situation.
“I assure all Nigerians that the grim economic
situations are passing phase which all societies go
through,’’ he added.
