DESPITE HUGE REVENUE BETWEEN 1999 AND 2014, INFRASTRUCTURE DEVT WAS IGNORED – BUHARI
President Muhammadu Buhari has lamented that despite the huge resources at the disposal of Nigeria between 1999 and 2014, infrastructure became rotten within the same period.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, in a statement on Monday, said Buhari made the remarks while receiving the outgoing British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright, in a farewell audience at the State House.
He quoted the president as saying, “Our focus now is on infrastructure; roads, rail, power, and others. How I wish we had fixed all those when we had money.
“What we earned between 1999 and 2014 is on record, but nothing was done to infrastructure. Now, we are doing a lot more, with a lot less resources. And we shall continue to do our best.”
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