Amaechi urge Nigerians to be patient
(Nigeria) The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi
on Tuesday appealed to Nigerians to be patient and give the administration more
time to achieve its objectives.
Making the appeal while answering questions at the forum of
the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja,
Amaechi said:
``We encountered challenges; were we expecting to encounter
those challenges? yes; did we think that we will meet the quantum or volume of
those challenges? We didn’t anticipate
that things were this bad. We thought you go to government and there would be
money for you to run government and others.
``Now you have the situation where there is no money to run government.
I hate to use the word difficult; I hate to use the word impossible but we met
things close to difficult and impossibility.
``That is why Nigerians are impatient; they want to see
results and for them, change is not about change in structure, it is about
change in their pocket. Because their pocket is getting dried and they wanted
us to put some more resources in their pocket.
``Because of the structural changes that we want to put in
place is not getting all that they want to get. What I usually say to people is
that we beg you to give us time; we will achieve our objective if you give us
time and we will both thank God for that opportunity.’’
He gave an assurance that money recovered from the ongoing
corruption fight, would be used to provide infrastructure.
According to him, the government has started paying
contractors not appointed by the current administration, noting that such
action represents service delivery to the people.
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