The nation’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday in Abuja said that Nigeria as a country does not have a record of the number of resources that she is blessed with.
President Buhari also disclosed that a major part of Africa’s natural resources are domiciled in the country.
He made the disclosure at a farewell meeting with his media support group, the Buhari Media Organization(BMO), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He described Nigeria as being a lucky country given the natural resources available to it and its vast population, saying, “we don’t even know how much resource we have. A major part of Africa’s natural resources are domiciled in this country.”
He made comparisons with countries he had been to on military assignment, citing a particular one where people who died of hunger overnight were cleared off the streets by refuse collectors and, in his words, “people just moved on with their daily lives even in the face of these cultural shocks.”
The president in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, showered praises on members of the BMO for volunteering their time and energy throughout the eight years of his administration surprisingly “without salary, letter of appointment or any formal rewards.”In appreciation, he described their sacrifices as ‘very un-Nigerian.’”
