SAN FRANAISCO, January 17, (THEWILL) – In view of the maxim that government is a continuum, the Senate on Monday warned President Muhammadu Buhari against abandoning projects and policies of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo; late U Umaru Yar’Adua, and Goodluck Jonathan.
The upper legislative chamber explained that the warning became necessary owing to its determination to cut down on wasteful spending by government.
Speaking in Abuja during an investigative hearing on the abandonment of N8 billion Code of Conduct Bureau Office headquarters, organized by the Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, the committee chairman, Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi West) stressed that the alarming increase in the number of abandoned projects has become a source of great concern.
He noted that, “as soon as these programmes and projects are abandoned, new ones are initiated only to be abandoned again by yet another successive government. The process continues while the nation’s resources continue to be wasted.
“It is instructive to state that this is not so with the developed countries. Projects and programmes, as well as policies are sustained. They place nation’s interest above other considerations. This sutenable poicy has yielded positive results as these countries have moved from developing to developed world.”
While reminding the Buhari administration of its commitment as an advocate of change, the lawmaker charged the current administration “to right all administrative wrongs championed by past administrations”.
Decrying the abandonment of projects across the country by successive governments since 1999, Melaye said, “the Senate was utterly dismayed when it received a motion in respect of the abandonment of N8 billion Code of Conduct Bureau office headquarters projects”.
