We need patriotic and not compromised Nigerians as ministers - Buhari on why appointing ministers is taking long

The president of Nigeria has been nicknamed Baba go slow by Nigerians because he is taking his time to do a lot of things including appointing ministers. Well, Buhari says he has good reasons to take his time because he is trying to rebuild the nation. According to him, a lot of experienced and knowledgeable Nigerians fit for the job have been compromised and appointing them will return Nigeria to square one. Oh well sir, if this is what Nigeria needs to curtail corruption, please take your time. Anyway, read the rest of what he says below and stay happy. Xoxo…

“From what I have seen so far, we need very patriotic Nigerians (to be ministers); Nigerians that can work very hard with knowledgeable experience; committed Nigerians to be in charge of ministries.

“A lot of institutions in Nigeria are compromised, everybody for himself and God for all of us. It is most unfortunate. We have people, educated and experienced people, but everybody seems to be working for himself on how much they could get away with as soon as possible.

“We have to look for technocrats and politicians. We have to look out for decent people in this class to give them the responsibility of being in charge of ministries and important parastatals.

“It is taking so much time (to appoint ministers) because a number of knowledgeable people have been compromised. They have been compromised by people who will like to depend on them to damage our economy and security; a lot of them have been compromised.

“The worst thing that I think can happen is to get a compromised person to be in charge of institutions. There is no way he could be efficient or patriotic. Somebody behind the scene will be manipulating him at the expense of the nation.

“This is what we are trying to avoid and I assure you that so much damage has been done to Nigeria. We cannot rush to give this responsibility to people that have unfortunately been compromised.

“This is because there is no way you can effectively supervise, let’s say 20 ministries, you have to give it to people you trust and you allow them to perform according to the Constitution of the country. If you appoint compromised people, then we will be back to square one and Nigeria will be the loser.”

Source: DailyPost

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