The Buhari Media Organization (BMO) has come out to say that the President Muhammadu Buhari will not implement policies that will affect the poor negatively while raising revenue to fund Nigeria’s infrastructure projects.
BMO chairman, Mr Niyi Akinsiju, revealed this today at the NANForum in Abuja.
According to him, Buhari always considers the consequence of all government policies on Nigerians, especially the common citizens.
He added that Buhari is currently thinking about building roads, upgrading schools, upgrading hospitals even if the reality is that the country doesn't have money.
His words, “We've a President that is considerate that for every policy, the important thing to him would be the consequence to Nigerian poor and the Nigerian people.
“The truth is that we're now thinking of building roads, upgrading schools, upgrading hospitals and all that when we've lesser money to attend to such.
“So, the reality is that Nigeria doesn't have money and I personally do not delude myself because we do not have money and the only way we can have money is a pure capitalist system that we're running.
“We would have gone into taxing, removing subsidy and all that, that is what most capitalists of the other worlds are telling us to remove subsidy so that government would have more money.”
There was recently this 2.5 per cent increase in VAT and there was uproar, meanwhile our capitalist economists are telling us that we should have increased it to 15 per cent VAT, you can only imagine the outcome,”
“If today, we're talking of bad roads, bad hospitals, bad schools, it means that the governments of the past have abandoned their responsibilities.
“Because we can't be talking about roads since independence in 1960, how several years after, close to how several decades as a country with governments at various time.
“If government of each particular period had been constructing 100 kilometers of road per year, you can only imagine how several roads would have been constructed. We should not be thinking of roads now.”