Sunday 22 September 2013

Senator Asks Okonjo-Iweala, Ngama To Resign Over State Of Economy



The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonka -
Iweala and her junior, Dr. Yerima Ngama
have both been asked to resign if they lack
ideas on how to run the economy. Senator Abdulmumuni Muhammad Hassan,
who stated this in an exclusive interview
culled from LEADERSHIP SUNDAY said, “I
believe the two ministers of finance are
short of ideas and if that is the case, they
should resign and allow other people to come in and inject fresh blood and ideas into
the economy.” According to him, “the minister of state was
reported to have said that the budget
cannot be implemented and yet, Ngozi is
telling us that the economy is buoyant”. The lawmaker also stated that, “Our
sources of revenue has not decreased,
nobody has come out to say there is a short
fall. So why won’t they implement the
budget fully? We the PDP are feeling guilty
and ashamed of what is happening to the economy. Nobody doubts that they have
good qualifications, but their ideas are
exhausted and we advise them to resign
and allow the president to bring in fresh
blood into the system”. Hassan, who represents Jigawa South/West
Senatorial District in the upper chamber of
the National Assembly and has sponsored
three bills in the Senate, further stated that
his bill on fire service will among other
things compel the government to equip and upgrade the fire service by providing latest
technology. It will also ensure that lives and
property of Nigerians are saved from fire
disasters. It would be recalled that Comptroller
General of the Federal Fire Service, Mr.
Olusegun Okebiorun some few months ago
said the country loses N50 billion to fire
disasters annually.

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