President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his anti-corruption agencies have secured over 1400 convictions and recovered N800 billion loots.
He explained that the recovered sums are being “ploughed into development and infrastructure projects.”
Buhari on Friday while addressing Nigerians on Democracy Day said the government said his administration will: “continued to implement accountability and transparent policies through the Open Government Partnership and the transparency portal on financial transactions” while also strengthening auditing and accountability mechanisms to ensure that “rules and regulations are followed strictly.”
The President said the national economy was already making steady progress until the COVID-19 pandemic set in and disrupted the gains.
But he said the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 was determined to ensure that the pandemic “does not overwhelm our health systems while ensuring that we maintain an effective Case Management System to help in containing the spread of the virus.”
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As part of the effort to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, he said he had “the employment of 774,000 Nigerians.”
The youths will be engaged in the Special Public Works Programme aimed at cushioning the effects of the economic downturn.
Each of the 774 local government areas in the country will be allotted 1,000 slots.