BUHARI MAKES SHOCKING REVELATIONS

 

President Muhammadu Buhari on his first day at the Aso Rock Villa, after his swearing in on May 29, said he inherited a “virtually empty treasury”, from his predecessor, Dr Goodluck Jonathan with debts running into hundreds of millions of dollars. Mr. President, who disclosed this on Monday, June 22, 2015 during a meeting with members of the state house press corps, blamed the situation on bad management, adding that it was a disgrace that Nigeria is unable to pay workers’ salaries.

Buhari admitted that there is already a lot of pressure on his government due to the huge expectations of Nigerians. The president, yesterday held a meeting with the three service chiefs, who were led by the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh.

The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, Alhaji Ismail Aliyu, who addressed state house correspondents after the meeting, said Buhari ordered the withdrawal of the military from internal security operations as part of a comprehensive review of national security operations. He said the directive was given because Nigeria and four other countries in the Lake Chad sub-region had for the first time developed a united military strategy against the regional menace, Boko Haram. He said after the president ordered the withdrawal of military checkpoints, he directed the police to henceforth take firm control of internal security.

The permanent secretary said Buhari told the security chiefs to liaise with the authorities of the Nigeria Police Force to finalise arrangements for Police to effectively take over internal security. He revealed that the meeting with the security chiefs was to give them the opportunity to brief the president on the implementations of recent decisions reached on the fight against insurgency.