A public enlightenment group based
in the Southeast Nigeria, the Southeast for Positive Change and Enlightenment Team
(SEPCET) has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led federal government destroyed the nation’s economy in the last 16 years.
A statement emailed to this online newspaper by the group stated it met in Owerri at the weekend. The Statement reads thus:
Speaking to a coalition of
progressive youths from the five states of the southeast Nigeria
in Owerri at the weekend, the leader of the group, Hon Emeka Amadi said "PDP
looted and mismanaged the economy of Nigeria. You can all see that 1 dollar is
almost equal to 320 of the Nigerian naira. When PDP took over power in 1999, 1
dollar was between N60 and N65".
“They destroyed the economy of
Nigeria to the extent that, after 16 years, upon the ridiculous amount of tax
payers money that was thrown into power generation, maintenance of power
facilities and privatization, PDP was still unable to leave a legacy of
constant power supply to Nigerians and give the southeast states light. And
upon the darkness they provided, they still used their might to extort
Nigerians by collecting what they called fixed charges from very poor
Nigerians.
“Because they couldn’t fix and
put our refineries to optimal use, in order to produce enough petroleum
products that will compliment imported products to meet up with the
high demand of the products, especially now that the present economic realities
and the anti-corruption stance of the present administration cannot afford the
luxury of sharing our collective earning to few members of a cabal in the oil
industry that have milked this country dry through subsidy payment thus we are now
faced with fuel scarcity.
"Because they looted,
squandered, depleted and shared our excess crude and foreign reserves and
couldn’t save during the nation’s time of abundance, the present APC led
federal government is finding it difficult to pay salaries, arrears of
pensions, as well as settle down for governance.
“Today the entire southeast
cannot point at what they benefitted or gained from the PDP for 16
years and because the APC led federal government is working to rebuild Nigeria
and the southeast, they are very afraid and have gone back to their drawing
board to devise strategies of weakening the ruling party through malicious
propaganda and blackmail.
"When I see PDP members on the
social media wearing their toga of corruption and abusing the less than one
year administration of President Buhari, as well as, Governor Okorocha, the
former Speaker of the State Assembly and other members of the APC, but fails to to say what PDP has done for Ndi Igbo in their 16 year
reign.
“When was the last time we heard
that a church was bombed in North or that an Igbo market or park was attacked
and our people killed. Look around the southeast, one will observe that several
construction projects initiated by the APC led government are ongoing and this
is what is given PDP sleepless nights because they don’t want their sin to be
revealed to the people.
“Before APC provided good learning
environment and made education free in Imo state and other APC states, PDP
asked students to pay exorbitant school fees without roofs, chairs and desk to
learn with, today if you are in school or have two or three children in school
and you do not pay school fees for any them, is it not extra savings?
“So when they are trying to divert
attention from the real issues, you should checkmate them. Now that the budget
has been signed and is waiting for the assent of Mr. President, let us occupy
our energy with the sensitization of our people about the positive attribute of
the President Buhari’s led administration, especially now that the
administration has promised to fix our refineries and find a lasting solution
to the lingering fuel scarcity problem in Nigeria, build our economy and make
sure salaries and pensions comes as at when due.
"Let us also support this
government because of its plan to resuscitate one health centre In every
electoral ward in the southeast region, the construction of the second Niger
bridge and several road, amongst others, as there are many things to be done
because the damage done by the PDP cannot be repaired in just one year.’
No comments:
Write comments