President Muhammadu Buhari has decries the high rate of accident on the country’s roads.
He described the daily casualty figure from such accident as scandalous and could have been avoided, if past government had utilised huge resources at its disposal on infrastructural growth.
The President spoke when he received a group from the Southeast, “One on One Nigeria”, at the Presidential Villa.
Buhari said the needless waste of human lives as a result of bad roads would have been saved, if previous administrations had utilised enormous resources available then on infrastructure.
The President said: “We are trying to organise the country. The extent of mismanagement we met when we came was mind-boggling.
“Many times, I have spoken about the tremendous resources available to us between 1999 and 2014, and how it was frittered. If only they had used just 25 per cent of it on infrastructure – road, rail and power, Nigerians would mind their own businesses and not bother about whoever was in power.
“The casualty figure on our roads daily is simply scandalous. No wonder they are in opposition now, despite all the power they thought they had.”
Leader of the group, Chief Chido Obidiegwu, hailed the President for what he called “the strides of the Buhari administration nationwide, particularly in the Southeast”.
He added that the 2019 presidential election was “payback time” for them.
Obidiegwu said: “We have seen the work being done on the long-abandoned Second Niger Bridge, roads are being constructed in many parts of the region and we believe there is every reason to support you for a second term.”
He described the President as the “grandfather of war against indiscipline and corruption, nightmare of insurgents, Mr. Food security, consolation to pensioners and Mr. Frugality”.
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