Moment of Truth. Part 2. President Jonathan Ongoing Sanitization Of The Oil And Gas Sector Already Yielding Results. When President Jonathan came on board, he primarily focused on fighting corruption in 3 key areas… - Electoral corruption - Fertilizer distribution corruption - Corruption in the oil and gas So far, war on “electoral corruption” and “fertilizer distribution corruption” has recorded tremendous success. But the oil and gas has been the hardest. Nevertheless, this is what he has achieved so far… He exposed the biggest scam ever in Nigeria’s history. In 2011, he told us (Nigerians) that there was huge corruption going on in the fuel subsidy sub-sector. So, he took the subsidy money and put it in places where it will yield more dividend. Well, nobody understood him. So in January 2012, we all went on strike. To prove his point, a probe panel was set up. What did they discover? USD6.8 Billion (N108.8 Billion) has been stolen in just 3 years. Let’s put things in a right Perspective. What really is Subsidy? If a cup (Aka. De Rica) of garri is N300 and I pay N100 for you, then I’ve subsidized the garri – that’s garri subsidy. What is Subsidy Scam? If the garri seller sells 1 cup of garri to you and then lie to me that he sold 10 cups, that’s subsidy scam. The Result? The subsidy money was used to create the Sure-P Programme. Below are the achievements so far… - Used to support road construction. As a result, 17,000km out of the 23,000 km of bad federal road completed. It’s just remaining 7,000 km and the entire federal road in Nigeria will become good. - Support for Maternal Health 600 health centers (mostly in rural communities) already built – and equipped. 700 still under construction. Consequentially, maternal death has been reduced by 60%. Half a million women now give birth under the care of trained midwives. - Increased water access - Over 620 boreholes built nationwide. - Supported the fight against unemployment Sure-P has been helping in the struggle to get jobs for the 22 million unemployed Nigerian youths… It’s been working with (and paying) 2,000 youths across the country. 3,000 graduates has gotten jobs under the “graduate internship scheme (GIS)” 5075 youths undergoing vocational training. Furthermore… He created and sponsored the most controversial bill in Nigeria’s history, the “Petroleum Industrial Bill (PIB)” In 2008, the federal government created and sent the petroleum industrial bill (PIB) to the national assembly. It is a bill that will block all the corruption loopholes – and solve every other problem – in the petroleum industry. What happened to it? It was vehemently rejected. On 18th July 2012, President Jonathan resent the bill. But up till now, legislation on the bill has not gone half way. In May 2015(barely 4 months from now), this current national assembly will be dissolved. A new one will be set up and everybody will go back to square one. Hmm… You never knew Corruption could fight back? Now you do. As if that is not enough… He has commissioned – and never stood on the way of any – probe in almost every sector of the industry… -Aig- Imoukhuede Presidential committee on verification and reconciliation of subsidy claims and payments -Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force Committee - The Dotun Suleiman committee - The Kalu Idika Kalu committee - The 20 Billion Naira Scam probe - Etcetera… With time we will see the results. In Conclusion President Jonathan’s approach to fighting corruption looks radically different. He has focused on strengthening institutions and blocking loopholes in the system.Where possible, he used technology. #IStandWithGEJ
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 12:24:16 +0000
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