President
Goodluck Jonathan follows his intention to share results of fulfilled
presidential promises with the people of Nigeria. This time, Jonathan
dedicates his Facebook post to successful re-organization of EFCC and
ICPC that led to eradication of corruption in agricultural sector.
Jonathan
said the best way to tackle corruption is to eliminate the
opportunities for graft. This should be done “through building and
strengthening accountability institutions constitutionally empowered”.
Thus,
the President re-organized the EFCC and ICPC and appointed leaders of
credibility to lead them. Moreover, he “also ensured that no one
interfered with their work and we gave them the tools they needed to do
their work”.
According to Jonathan, the agricultural sector used
to be a ‘fraud’ zone that “siphoned billions of Naira that was meant to
procure vitally needed fertilizer to ensure that Nigeria attains
National Food Security’.
However, after the administration
introduced an e-wallet system – by which farmers were registered and
their mobile phones were used to distribute fertilizers and seeds
directly from source to end user thereby cutting out the middle man –
the food import bill has reduced from 1.1 Trillion Naira in 2009 to 634
billion Naira.
Reportedly, with the help of the technology of the
Intergrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), “the
Federal Government has weeded out over 50,000 ghost workers from the
Federal Civil Service saving 160 billion Naira annually through the
process”.
“As
I speak, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is
currently prosecuting offenders who are suspected of perpetrating this
fraud,”
Jonathan continued.
The President also said
that after he signed the Freedom of Information Law (FOI), he allowed
everyone in Nigeria to know how much he spends as well as how much is
spent by other Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal
Government.
Recently, President Goodluck Jonathan at his campaign
rally in Kwara promised to provide jobs for Nigerians through the
agricultural sector if elected.
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