Speaking to newsmen during the AU Summit in South Africa yesterday,
president Buhari said he doesn't know why people are anxious about
ministers, saying he's yet to appoint them because his predecessor’s
transition committee submitted its report on the previous administration
to him late.
“I don’t know why people are so anxious about ministers. But eventually
we will have (them). But the main reason is that I have an interim
committee which I agreed with the former President Jonathan that the
ministers of the outgoing government should hand over
their notes or their documents to this interim committee so that a
position can be prepared for the new government to start from with clear
records from ministers.
But the ministers knew that they were going while the technocrats, the
permanent secretaries and directors and so on, would remain. If anything
goes wrong they would be invited to explain, but unfortunately the
outgoing government did not cooperate.
So, what the committee did was to divide itself into about five
sub-committees and got a resource person that was willing to come and
bring the document, and so they prepared and I got the report I think
three days ago."
“I was waiting for this report because I would like to know the position
of things in the government especially in terms of finance and
petroleum industry. So, I am not in a hurry to get ministers.
I want to get ministers after at least I have seen the report because I
don’t have to appoint a minister today and sack him the next week
because this report would give me what actually happened in terms of
security, and economy of the country. And since I have to have ministers
from politicians and technocrats, I wouldn’t (like to) make the mistake
of getting somebody, who has been involved on account of
accountability." he said
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