President Buhari Drops Hint On His List Of Ministers

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, in Abuja reassured that only patriotic, decent and experienced Nigerians would be appointed as ministers in his government. The President said this while speaking on ‘Good Morning Nigeria’, a programme of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA)

He gave an insight into those to be appointed into his cabinet, saying that he would appoint only patriotic Nigerians who were knowledgeable professionals and technocrats who had not been compromised.

“From what I have seen so far, we need really patriotic Nigerians – Nigerians that can work very hard, knowledgeable, experienced, committed Nigerians – to be in charge of ministries. A lot of the institutions of Nigeria – important institutions – were compromised. Everybody was for himself and God for all of us; its most unfortunate,” he said.

“We have the people, educated people, experienced people but everybody seemed to be working for himself – how much he could get as much and as quick as possible. We have to look for technocrats and we have to look for politicians and certainly we have to look for decent people in this class to give them the responsibility of being in charge of ministries and important parastatals (agencies).”

Addressing the reported under-dealings in the nation’s oil and gas sector, the President Buhari said his administration was still studying the recommendations on how the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) should be reorganized.

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He described his recent trip to the United States (US) as very successful as he was able to extract the commitment of the American government to assist and support Nigeria toward tackling the economic and security challenges it was facing.

Buhari also vowed to retrieve proceeds of crude oil stolen by corrupt Nigerian leaders. He said that crack teams of the Nigerian anti- graft agencies were already on the trail of such funds and that those involved would be prosecuted at the end of the investigations.

After speaking in American during his last week’s trip to Washington that 1 million barrels were been stolen daily, President Buhari has reduced the quantity of the alleged crude oil theft to 250, 000 barrels per day.

He said that the US and other European countries had also pledged to assist Nigeria by putting in place necessary security mechanism in the Gulf of Guinea to help check the theft of the country’s crude oil