President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to continue to crack down on corrupt persons during his second term which begins on May 29, 2019.
He made this know while speaking in a media chat with state television yesterday.
“My frustration is that we cannot move faster in prosecution and punishment of corrupt persons.
“We made some progress, we recovered a number of fixed assets and money in banks including Europe and America.”
According to Buhari, the legal process was what had slowed progress so far.
“Even if you are using whistleblowers, you have to go to the police… to go through the rigmarole of full investigation before prosecution,” he added.
“The frustration is it’s taking too long… I need to see that those who have frustrated our economy are punished.”
He also used the opportunity to criticize senate president Bukola Saraki and Speaker Yakubu Dogara concerning the 2019 budget which he signed yesterday.
“When they go around posing that they are the government, not the executive, then that is the problem,” Buhari said.
“I told them, how do they feel to hold the country to ransom for seven months without passing a budget? I said, personally they are not hurting me, they were hurting the country. So really in terms of patriotism, I think I rated them very, very low indeed.”
