President Buhari on Thursday hosted members of Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) at State House, Abuja, promising to beam the searchlight on the cost of governance and weed out possible corruption.
The President appreciated members of the committee for the “major sacrifice “they’ve made in accepting the assignment to serve the country,” adding: “Some of the elite won’t trust you, and you will be alienated, no matter how close you are to them.”
He recalled the experience of the past, in which assets were seized from officials who could explain how they got them, “only for those assets to be returned to them when government was changed.” President Buhari vowed that such would not reoccur, as he had given instructions that all forfeited assets be sold, “and the money put in the Treasury Single Account.”
In a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina, the President said: “Let’s see who will now take back the money from the treasury, and give back to those people, as was done in the past.”
THE NATION
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