Garba Shehu blasts NOA for apathy to Buhari’s agenda

Garba Shehu blasts NOA for apathy to Buhari’s agenda

Sunday, March 27, 2016 7:51 pm


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Buhari: NOA apathetic to administration’s philosophy

President Muhammadu Buhari’s senior special assistant, Garba Shehu has accused a federal government agency, National Orientation Agency for being lukewarm to the administration’s agenda of change.

“We have an agency like NOA with 773 offices nationwide.

“Each has not less than 5 to 7 staffs and well-equipped, but you know also, sometimes democracy has its own dark side.

“The President came and he wanted to really be fair to every Chief Executive. If he wanted to fire people on assumption (of office), he would have done it and he would not have violated any rule.

“He decided to give everyone a chance to see whether they would imbibe the change mantra, to see whether they were prepared to go along (with him).

“They never believed in change. They just folded their arms and watched us for the period of 8 to 9 months that they were there.

“I will say with all sincerity that NOA was a source of worry for us in government; the people and the leadership never believed in what we are doing.

“I believe the new leadership would begin to formulate things for agencies like that,” he said.

The presidential aide praised Nigerians for steadfastly supporting the present administration especially during a period most people considered to be difficult.

Shehu congratulated Nigerians on the achievements the President had recorded fighting insurgency and explained that the military have tagged their success against Boko Haram a “technical victory’’ because no city is presently under curfew.

The SSA said that with the passage of the budget by the National Assembly, the next phase for the President would be to rebuild damaged facilities and infrastructure.

He said that with the Central Bank of Nigeria realising more than N3 trillion through the introduction of the Treasury Single Account and the passage of the budget, a lot of activities would pick up.

On the quest by Nigerians to know the amount of money the Federal Government had so far recovered from treasury looters, Shehu said the litigation hurdles associated with the looted funds would have to be scaled before Nigerians were availed of the figures.


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