President Muhammadu Buhari has criticised a former president for spending billions of dollars on power projects in the country with no results.
According to the President, one of the former Heads of State had bragged that he spent 16 billion dollars on power yet there’s been nothing to show for it.
Buhari made this known on Tuesday while addressing a Buhari Support Organisation led by the Comptroller-General of Nigerian Customs Service, Hameed Ali, who visited him at the State House.
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He said: “One of the former Heads of State between that time was bragging that he spent more than 15 billion American dollars, on power.
“Where is the power? Where is the power? And now we have to pay the debts.”
Even though President Buhari did not mention the name of the former president, he may have been referring to the Olusegun Obasanjo administration which spent billions on power projects.
The Obasanjo administration had claimed that it spent $16bn on electricity projects, an amount which the House of Representatives later described as a “colossal waste”
Consequently, there were several calls for investigation into the expenditure of power projects.
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