LAGOS—THE Minister of Information, Culture
and Tourism, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said
that President Muhammadu Buhari’s
administration’s anti-graft crusade was not to
witch hunt anybody but to expose Nigerians to
cost of corruption.
This came as Lagos State governor, Mr,
Akinwunmi Ambode, expressed his
administration’s readiness to collaborate with
the Federal Government to improve all its
infrastructure in Lagos, particularly, in the
area of culture and tourism.

The duo made the remarks at the Lagos
House, Alausa, Ikeja, yesterday when the
former paid the governor a courtesy call.
The minister, while fielding questions from
State House correspondents on the issues of
corruption, lamented that Nigerians had not
shown much anger against the revelation
from the anti-corruption agencies so far.
His words: “The emphasis of our government
is not just to talk about figure of how much
has been embezzled.
‘’Even the figures are dizzy enough. Only two
days ago, ADC to former President Goodluck
Jonathan said when they brought N10 billion
for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
campaign, he did not open it. He said he only
gave it to the Special Adviser on Domestic
Affairs. This is quite troubling.
“But more importantly, our government wants
Nigerians to know the cost of corruption. The
government wants Nigerians to know what we
are suffering. When we had a news
conference in January and disclosed that 55
people stole, N1.343 trillion between 2006 and
2013, what we wanted to emphasize was that
one-third of the money would have gone to
Nigeria.
“Using the World Bank rate, we said the
money would be able to redevelop Lagos-
Ibadan Expressway. It will be able to give us
one ultra-modern hospital in each state of the
federation. In addition, that money would have
given 20,000 units of two-bedroom flat. The
remaining will still educate 3,954 students
from primary schools to tertiary level. In
addition, it will build 183 state-of-the-art
schools.
“So, what we are trying to make Nigerians
understand is that corruption is eating deep,
not just into the fabrics of our morals, but it
is preventing development.”
Earlier, while receiving the minister, Ambode
said Lagos was more than ready to work with
FG in every area, particularly, culture and
tourism even as the state prepares to
celebrate 50th anniversary next year.
He said: “Just the same way we have
collaborated with the police, we will
collaborate with you and ensure that whatever
we can do to create a facelift to the
infrastructure of the Federal Government in
Lagos, we will do it because it will eventually
be to the benefit of Lagosians and eventually
aid the economic growth of Lagos and so
talking about the National Museum at Onikan,
we will go straight with the commissioners
here to see how we can put up a modern-day
museum of international standard and see
how that can work towards our Lagos@50
Celebration next year.
“We are not only doing it for Nigeria, but also
for the future of our cultural heritage. We
believe strongly that the axis around Onikan
and Marina is actually the melting port of our
cultural heritage and we must start to
recreate the monument in that area to be able
to say a whole lot about the history of Lagos
and more importantly, a whole lot about the
history of Nigeria.
“In addition to that, like I said, Lagos@50 is
coming up next year and so we are in dire
need of monuments and iconic structures.
“We would also be collaborating with the
Ministry to see how we can get sculptors,
artists and curators to be able to put a whole
lot of things together and work with our
Lagos@50 Committee to ensure that that
becomes something iconic on its own and
then to the benefits of all Nigerians as well.”

Source: http://www.globalnaijablog.com/2016/02/26/421/

Its sad we are d ones paying the price of this corruption. Too sad