President Muhammadu Buhari has handed over those who looted Nigeria’s treasury in the past government to God for appropriate devine punishment.He said that for the damage they had done this country, “only God can give them punishment.”
The President, who spoke when he received about 1,000 local and Diaspora support groups for his second term bid, at the presidential villa, Abuja yesterday, Friday, said: “all those who were involved in large scale abuse of trust, only God can give them punishment but those we can touch, we will get them prosecuted. We have said their property that have been confiscated should be sold and the money put into the treasury which we will use.”
President Buhari’s recalled how he met with the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (Mr Godwin Emefiele) on assumption of office in 2015 and was informed that there was no money left in the treasury, saying: “I have said this for the umpteenth time and I have challenged them to prove me wrong, but in the 16 years the PDP ruled, Nigeria was getting 2.1 million times 100 (2.1 million barrels by $100 per barrel) every day, every week, but when we came on board, the price fell to between $37-$38 and hung around $40-$50.”
