“No government has overseen more infrastructural development than Buhari” – Garba Shehu
Presidential spokesperson on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, says Buhari’s government has achieved more infrastructural development than previous administrations.
Shehu said the “records are there for everyone to see.”
“No government, no past administration in Nigeria has invested as much as we have done or let me say like we are currently doing in infrastructure development,” he said in an interview with Ben TV.
“From day one when he took power, the president gave a target of not less than 30 percent of annual appropriation devoted to infrastructure development. Without infrastructure, we can not lay the foundation for growth.
“When this administration came to power, between 95 and 96 percent of public expenditure was going into overhead cost leaving only about 5 or 6 percent for infrastructure.
“The allocation of 30 percent under this administration has led to tremendous improvement in the provision of infrastructure so far in the country. Now there is a lot of work going on, building new rail lines and the rehabilitation of the old rail system networks, roads are been done all across the country, you only need to drive around to see for yourself.”
Shehu, elsewhere in the interview, said “Everyone complaining of hunger should go and work.”
“This is the only government that has introduced social investment schemes, we pay out now for the poorest of the poor, the least they will get is N5,000 and a lot of these jobs that are being created are from loans with little or no interest from the central bank, Bank of industry, Banks of Agriculture, Development Bank and the rest,” he said.
