Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that the
change the APC promised Nigerians during the 2015 general elections
campaign is now manifesting in Nigeria. He said this while speaking at
the Federal government town hall meeting in South East Enugu yesterday
August 1
“Many have said they are yet to see the change we promised. Many more
have called the promise a ruse. In fact, they are now mocking us.
But we remain undaunted because we know that the
change we promised is real. In fact, the change we promised is already
here, and it is manifesting all around us”he saidContinuing he said “Before now, public officials simply opened the
public till, took as much money as they wanted and walked away, without
consequences! That explains why funds allocated to the military to fight
Boko Haram ended up in the piggy banks of many unscrupulous Nigerians.
Today, all those who looted the public treasury are being made to answer
for their actions, as impunity gives way to accountability. Prior to
now, funds accruing to the government were paid into so many accounts
that even the government could not keep a tab on them, or worse still
did not even know the accounts existed. Today, every kobo accruing to
the government is paid into a single account, called the Treasury
Singles Account (TSA), to be used for the benefit of all Nigerians.
Before now, thousand of ghosts earned salaries every month. Of course,
we all know that ghosts don’t work, yet they got paid in this country.
Today, the ghosts are in trouble as over 30,000 of them have had their
unmerited salaries stopped, saving the country millions and millions of
naira. Many more ghosts are being smoked out,”.
