President of the federal republic of Nigeria,Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria and this Government cannot afford to pay forty two ministers and that not all the minister nominees that have been screened will have portfolios.
Moreso he went on to say that the country Nigeria was ‘material and morally vandalized’ and that he will reduce the numbers of ministries.
He said;
‘This is team work I said I know people but there are people that I accept from other people in our team that I trust without even knowing them.’
‘May be those that are having problem in the National Assembly I doubt if I have meet him in my life but then I am working with others.’
‘I did not work into the presidency alone. I have to defend on all the three tiers of government from all part of the country.’
Backing his 36 Minister nominees Buhari said that he can not work out outside the constitution and that ministers must be appointed in conformity with the constitution of the Federal Government in that ministerial appointment must reflect the 36 states of the country.
And that these minister nominees though representing their states some will not have portfolios but will be part of his cabinet.He added
‘We can not work outside the constitution there must be a cabinet representative from each state.’
‘There use to be forty two ministers but I think we can bearly keep half of that now because we can not afford it.
‘Other may not be substantive ministers but they will seats in the cabinet because that is what the constitution said and we can’t operate outside the constitution’
‘We are reducing the number of ministries we can’t afford to pay.’
In the same interview,Buhari also said that the country has no money to pay salaries as the government had to seek the Central Bank governor to look for ways to pay states workers’ salaries.
‘Where is the money? Do you know the Federal Government has to help twenty seven states out of thirty six to pay salaries?.’
‘Nigeria can not pay salaries Nigeria had to summon the Governor of the Central Bank to see how it could pay salaries not to talk of projects, agreement signed with foreign countries, counter funding and so on. The country was material vandalized and morally so.’
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