The Secretary to the Government of the Federation Babachir Lawal, says he has “no apologies” for being part of those who have the ears of President Muhammadu Buhari.
He said this during an interview with Channels Television stating that as SGF he needed to have access to the president daily.
“I am honoured to be [in the] cabal in this presidency. I have no apologies to make,” he said.
“If the president decides that he wants a secretary to the government who is going to work with him, coordinate the activities of his government, who will give him advise, obviously that man should be able to have unfettered access to the president.
“He is supposed to be able to give advice to the president because he is with the president on a daily basis in a manner that others might not have.”
Answering a question on why the Buhari-led administration was in the habit of blaming the previous administration Lawal said, “Could we have known for example, that somebody can walk into Central Bank, and leave with $2.2 billion raw cash?
“Could we have known that somebody will sit down and embezzle 40 billion? Look at the type of money they were dispatching. So we should keep quiet and let Nigerians think that everything is ok? That there was no looting?
“We are in the position we are in because people that came before us preferred to carry our common patrimony and put in the deposit accounts of their wives and children. What type of country are we if we decide to play the Ostrich? Nigerians must be told what we inherited, and I can assure you that majority of Nigerians are in favour of what this government is doing.
“Of course, some beneficiaries of the loot will make noise. Majority of the beneficiaries have access to newspapers, they have the Internet… It is the stolen wealth that they are using.
“But we are chasing thieves; we are chasing people who took away government money. People who impoverished us.”
Dolapo is a writer and journalist who works with YNaija. He has interests in Christianity, politics and sports.
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