President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari has condemned in very strong terms the use of foreign mercenaries hired from South Africa by the Nigerian military to wage war against the Boko Haram insurgents in North East.
He spoke in Kaduna yesterday when members of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) visited him, noting that his government will promote fiscal discipline and tackle insecurity, unemployment and corruption.
“My administration will concentrate on three major areas on assumption of office these are insecurity, economy, unemployment and corruption. We will ensure we nip the insecurity in the bud.
“The Nigeria Army could not do small thing, they have to bring in South African machinery to enable them record the recent gains in the North East.
“I don’t know how many of you know this. I got to know about it few days ago that the recent game in the North-East was because South African mercenary were used,” he stated.
Buhari also assured that, the incoming administration will pay more attention to the needs of the thousands of people displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East.
Speaking on governance, the President-elect said his administration will ensure that every Nigerian lives within his earning, adding that, “a situation where people live above their earnings will not be tolerated. “The President-elect said multi-party system was the best form of government in which elected leaders were made to be accountable to their people. “In this system people will be forced to perform because if they don’t, they will be voted out.”
Earlier, ACF Chairman, Ibrahim Ahmadu Coomassie, told Buhari about the major problems facing Nigerians of recent.
“The level of decay, the collapse of our moral values and level of corruption, crime, unemployment, impoverishment of the citizenry in general and our rural populace in particular, and the near disregard for human life have never been manifested as in the last six years,” he said.
According to him, the North-eastern region was devastated by Boko Haram while energy crisis had continued to destabilize economic growth and development.
He said that the current arrangement whereby the positions of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and the Head of Service of the Federation (HOSF) were regarded as superior to ministers in hierarchy was “against the principle of accountability in governance.”
