No more free, easy money in Nigeria –Buhari

President Muahmmadu Buhari on Wednesday said that
the era of free and easy money in the country has gone
for good.
Bahari made this known when he inaugurated road and
drainage projects in Tsafe Local Government Area of
Zamfara.
He inaugurated the 20km township road and 40km
drainages in Tsafe Local Government amounting to N2.1
billion.
The president also inaugurated the 75-kilometre Wanke-
Danjigba-Kucheri-Kigama-Bilbis Road with seven
bridges valued eight billion nairaNara.
He vowed that his administration would enthrone good
governance through vigorous prosecution of the
ongoing war against corruption in the country.
Buhari pledged to continue the ongoing war against
corruption, noting that corruption had retarded the
growth of the country.
According to him, the ongoing crusade against
corruption is not aimed at humiliating anyone but rather
meant to recover all looted fund to be put to public use.
He, therefore, called on the people of the state and
Nigerians in general to join his administration’s efforts
in ensuring that the change desired was well delivered.
“As the people of the state are aware the change agenda
was central issue of our 2015 electioneering campaign.
“Since this administration’s assumption of office in May
2015, the journey to fix the country and restore the
hope of the common man in the Nigerian project has
begun in earnest.
“You have all agreed to join me and work as agents of
change, the challenge before all of us therefore is
translating the change into reality.
“I,therefore, wish to call on every one to think closely
about the Nigerian situation.
“There is no easy money to throw around, we must go
back to farming, livestock rearing so that we could
develop the industries.
“We must put our hands on deck to ensure success of
our mission in engineering Nigeria.
“If efforts were made in the past to diversify the
economy from our absolute reliance on a single
commodity, we would not have found ourselves in our
current situation.
“I assure all Nigerians that the grim economic situations
are passing phase which all societies go through,’’ he
added.
The president also noted with delight that the security
situation in the country was improving, not only in the
North-East, but all over the country.
He also expressed the hope that the macro-economic
policies as well as the monetary policies being
implemented by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
would lead to steady growth in significant sectors of the
economy.
On security, Buhari noted that the commitment of his
administration to secure the country had already started
yielding fruitful results.
He said that for the first time in the history of Boko
Haram insurgency in the North-East, seven years ago,
the people of Borno celebrated this year’s the Eid-el-
Fitri with ease, devoid of any security barricades.
He reiterated the government’s determination to deal
decisively with any threat to security of the nation from
any quarters.
“Part of the reasons that I’m personally here is to flag
off the military operations aimed at routing out the
menace of cattle rustling and armed bandits, not only in
the state, but in the entire axis of North-West.
“I also wish to reiterate to the people of Zamfara and to
Nigerians in general, the commitment of this
administration to restoring sanity in governance.
“We shall continue to prosecute the war against
corruption. We do not wish or desire to humiliate or
disgrace anybody, but we must recover stolen fund and
put them to collective public use,’’ he said.
Buhari said he had listened to the litany of requests put
forward by the state governor and gave an assurance
that he would carefully study them and respond
appropriately.