Lai Mohammed: PDP is Rapacious, Larcenous

Says FG has saved N120bn from elimination of ghost workers

Olawale Ajimotokan implementation of the TSA.

Mohammed dropped the hints yesterday in Lagos when he addressed the media on government’s fight against corruption and its concerted efforts to fix the economy.

He said it would aggregate to a double tragedy and a contempt of Nigerians if the same PDP, that looted the treasury and left the country in rot are ever allowed to preside over the affairs of the nation.

“Where do we start? Do we want a Diezani back as Petroleum

Minister, after the recovery of at least $43 million and 56 houses from this one person?

“Do we want the $2.9 billion - that’s about one-eighth of the 2018 budget - that has been successfully traced and recovered from looters by the EFCC since the inauguration of the present administration, to be re-looted?

“What about the $151 million and N8 billion in looted funds that have been recovered from just three sources as a direct result of the introduction of the whistle-blower policy? Do we want them to be re-looted?” Mohammed asked in derision of PDP.

Using the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) as a case study, he said in the past, state-owned entities had persistently under remitted operating surpluses under the PDP led administration.

“Under the PDP, JAMB only remitted an aggregate of N51 million. In September 2017, the same JAMB announced it is ready to remit N7.8 billion back to the government. Do we want JAMB to go back to remitting N51 million?”

He said almost N3 trillion, almost half of the estimated revenue in the 2018 budget, has accrued to government with the enforcement of the TSA policy, adding PDP lacked the political will to implement the TSA, which it started.

“As the pace of politics gradually picks up ahead of 2019, it is important that we let Nigerians know the enormous progress that the Buhari Administration has made in just a little over two years, and to also, remind them of where the country was dumped by the PDP when we assumed office on May 29, 2015.

“Lest I forget: They recently alleged that our administration plans to arrest 50 of their members for alleged corruption. Really?

Are there still up to 50 people in the tottering PDP? Seriously, the guilty are afraid (according to the title of one of James Hadley Chase novels). Let those who have plundered our treasury face the music, if they must”.