The Presidency has denied rumours that it has rescinded the decision to publish the amounts recovered by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration from corrupt official.
Speaking during an interview with Channels TV Sunrise Daily, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Garba Shehu cleared the air on the President’s Democracy day speech which has generated a lot of controversy.
While clearing the air, he said: “What he (President) said was that the Minister of Information will be making a pronouncement on this and this is going to happen when work resumes from Tuesday.
“This is likely going to be out by Wednesday, or latest by Thursday. So nothing has changed from the position that there will be disclosure.
“The President has given authorisation that these assets that have been taken back from those who took from the treasury be put out there. So my view is that nothing is lost.”
While addressing the slogan, On Year Lost adopted by Nigerians as the president clocks one year in office, Garba Shehu expressed his disagreement with the view. He said: “The President had focus, he knew what to do from the beginning. He identified the problems of this country, putting the security of the country on top of the heap.
“He said repeatedly, ‘this country must be secured, there must be peace in this country for you to develop and manage it very well’.
“And I think that he has done for this country what others had failed to do for four to five years in which they had allowed problems like Boko Haram to fester.
“A street protest in Maiduguri had grown into a city-wide phenomenon, problem for neighbouring states and all of the Lake Chad, in fact a global phenomenon with the linkage to ISIS.
He added: “President Buhari within one year is about to bring Boko Haram to a closure. This is massive.”