The incoming administration might dismiss some groups in charge of security of oil pipeline and waterways in the country. According to the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, During a meeting with Rivers State chieftains of the APC on Wednesday, said his government won’t tolerate “an army within the army or a police within the police” in Nigeria.
The new administration plans to empower various security agencies in the country thereby putting an end to contract of some groups like Niger-Delta militants or groups like the Odua People’s Congress (OPC) in the South-west region. it was also revealed that contract awarded to these groups runs into billions of naira.
A member of the Board of Trustees of APC, Chief Sam Nkire, while commenting on the issue said that Buhari would have to do away with the contracts if they were not properly awarded.
The new administration plans to empower various security agencies in the country thereby putting an end to contract of some groups like Niger-Delta militants or groups like the Odua People’s Congress (OPC) in the South-west region. it was also revealed that contract awarded to these groups runs into billions of naira.
A member of the Board of Trustees of APC, Chief Sam Nkire, while commenting on the issue said that Buhari would have to do away with the contracts if they were not properly awarded.
“Well, once a government has been swept away, it ceases to
exist. The new government takes charge and whatever it decides to do,
becomes the law. If the government or presidency of Buhari thinks those
contracts were not properly given out or were not given to qualified
people, of course, the government will cancel those contracts.
“And from what I know of the incoming president, he will not waste a day to cancel those contracts because these are the reasons why Nigerians rejected the PDP government. Because, they did things that should not be done. They did things without recourse to the law.
“They did things with impunity and knowing Buhari as a man who abhors impunity; a man we can say is one of the incorruptible persons, I will be surprised if he does not revoke contracts that were wrongly awarded if he sees them”, Nkire said.
“And from what I know of the incoming president, he will not waste a day to cancel those contracts because these are the reasons why Nigerians rejected the PDP government. Because, they did things that should not be done. They did things without recourse to the law.
“They did things with impunity and knowing Buhari as a man who abhors impunity; a man we can say is one of the incorruptible persons, I will be surprised if he does not revoke contracts that were wrongly awarded if he sees them”, Nkire said.
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