Why Nigeria can’t give USA, Britain, others aid – Kogi CoS
Kogi State Chief of Staff, Abdulkareem Asuku has given reasons why Nigeria is not lending super countries funds, blaming on corruption, and lack of purposeful leadership.
Asuku made this disclosure on Saturday, in Gombe during the inauguration of Rescue Nigeria Mission for North-East region, stressing that the countries resources were poorly harnessed.
He revealed that the current administration has done credibly well but alot were desired to save the country from a brink, noting that failure to have a functional refinery has grave consequences on the economy.
Asuku said, “Corruption is steering at our faces today, we have a Nation with natural resources that ordinarily should be able to give aid to United States of America, Great Britain and the Asian world but we lack purposeful leadership to be able and harness these resources.
“The reason we can’t have a functional refinery that is our own, the reason we continue to import our fuel and we are shouting fuel subsidy, ideally when we have a leader that can build refinery that will function and extract your crude oil for the benefit of Nigeria. We have no reason subsidising crude oil commodity in Nigeria what is lacking is leadership, Nigeria can’t breathe until we have our refinery, until we have a leader that will unite Nigeria for the betterment of us all, until we have a leader that can curb widespread corruption.”
While urging youth participation in politics, Asuku noted that there was huge difference between inclusiveness and involvement, adding that 2023 election should allow for more engagement.
“What we are doing is awareness creation we are calling on the youths to come and pick their PVC so that they can come into governance system in a peaceful manner.
“This movement is against revolution what we are calling for is youth involvement not just inclusiveness but allowing the youth to take the driver seat because they have the leadership capacity, the technical know-how the agility, ability and even and the number that is required to reposition the situation democratically,” Asuku added.
