President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has spent N2.7 trillion on infrastructures since assumption office in 2015, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said weekend.
The federal government, according to Osinbajo, is committed to ensuring that monies belonging to Nigerians are not stolen but used for nation building.
He also said the country was earning 60 percent less than it earned in the past 10 years, adding that despite this low earning, the current administration has spent more in building infrastructure than any other government in the country.
The Vice President stated this at the palace of the Ovie of Ughelli, Oharisi III when he paid a courtesy visit on the monarch on the enumeration exercise of the Trader Moni Scheme in the Ughelli main market which would commence disbursement in January 2019, with 30,000 beneficiaries getting N10,000 each.
Accompanied by Dr. Ibe Kachukwu, the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, former Delta State governor, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and Chief Great Ogboru, Osinbajo noted that the federal government was focused on creating job opportunities for the common man and youths in the country.
He said: “Our school feeding programme is one of our Social Investment Programme and I am sure that in Delta State, we are feeding about 400,000 children every day.
”The N-Power is a graduate employment programme and we have 18,000 person engaged in the state.
“Today, N2.7trillion is what we are spending on building infrastructures. The question we ought to ask previous government is: where were they?
”What did they do with the monies, if today we are still building the Itakpe-Warri railway line which was established 35years ago as well as the Kaduna Hydro project which also was established 40years ago?”
