Buhari and N2.3 million salary per month The last has not been heard on the integrity of General Muhammadu Buhari(rtd). In spite of his prodigious mien, PDP has kept on confusing voters as to the qualities and qualification of the General by resorting to negative attacks on his personality. But we, the admirer of the people’s General will continue to give him the needed publicity and APC should ensure that this write up gets to as many Nigerians as possible before the election. Any patriotic Nigeria reading this would have chosen the right man. Some months ago, a honourable member of the Federal House of Representatives, Dino Melaye, decided to investigate why Muhammadu Buhari could not afford APC nomination form because he read online the question a lady asked. He went to the Ministry of Finance where he discovered that all former presidents and heads of state actually get N23 million monthly. The honourable said, “I read online the question a lady asked. The question is how can Buhari who earns over N300 million annually claim that he cannot afford to pay N27 million for the APC presidential nomination form? I became interested and decided to investigate. I went to the ministry of finance where I discovered that it’s true that all former presidents and heads of state actually get N23 million monthly. But, I found out that General Buhari(rtd) actually wrote the minister of finance to reject the N23 million monthly pay. He said in his letter that he will only accept 10 percent of that amount which is N2.3 million and that is what he has been taking. This is just to clear the air” This is a man that said in his speech at the APC convention in Lagos that he has no foreign account and he owns no company profiting from government contracts. When the retired General was reacting to a question on why he did not promote himself to a full General when he was Nigeria’s Head of State, he said rather than promote himself after getting to power, he was more concerned with how to rebuild Nigeria and enthrone a just, accountable and transparent regime. He also said, he believed that his colleagues in the military who asked him to lead the country did not make him the overall General of the armed forces. He said “It was the conviction of our regime that, being the Head of State and Commander-In- Chief of the Armed Forces, it does not mean that you are the overall General. My ultimate goal as at then was to ensure integrity, justice, equity, accountability and transparency in the system. That was why I did away with unnecessarily promoting myself to General” Apart from Major General Johnson Thomas Aguyi-Ironsi, who ruled Nigeria between January and July 1966, all other military heads of state before or after General Buhari were full Generals. No matter their ranks, they were quick in promoting themselves to General on assumption of office as heads of state from Yakubu Gowon, a lieutenant colonel at the time of getting to power to Murtala Muhammed, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha and Abdulsalami Abubakar. Their ranks ranged between Brigadier and Major General before getting to power and all of them left as full Generals. It is also interesting to note that General Buhari (rtd)was asked to take over as head of state in 1983 after officers, led by Ibrahim Babangida, toppled the administration of the democratically elected president Shehu Shagari. For two years, Major General Buhari was in power, he broke the tradition by refusing to promote himself to the rank of full General. What class of integrity! What a man! What a patriot! What a Nigerian!! I wrote on Major General Buhari in the The Nation on Thursday January 1, 2015 an article titled Buhari, A blessing to Nigeria. I think I am vindicated. Nigerians, we indeed need him at this period of our history. God help us. ~ Comrade Brown Buneke®
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:11:08 +0000
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