Press statement from the Presidency...they admit the president
collected one armoured SUV and one untreated SUV but deny he received
three hundred thousand dollars. Read below...
Our
attention has been drawn to reports making the rounds, especially on
internet-based media, that President Muhammadu Buhari received
$300,000.00 and up to five armoured SUVs from the Office of the National
Security Adviser in the aftermath of the attack on his convoy in Kaduna
last year.
We unequivocally deny that President Buhari received $300,000.00 or any
monetary compensation whatsoever from the Jonathan Presidency or any of
its officials, in the aftermath of that attack, or at any other time
since then.
While it is true that one armoured
SUV and one untreated SUV were sent to the President in the aftermath of
the attack, the vehicles were in keeping with his entitlements as a
former Head of State under the Remuneration of Former Presidents and
Heads of State (And other Ancillary Matters) Decree of 1999.
Section 3, Sub Section 1 of that Decree provides that three vehicles
will be provided for former heads of state and replaced every four
years.
There was therefore nothing untoward, illegal or tending to corruption
in former Head of State Buhari and Presidential aspirant, as he then
was, receiving vehicles, to which he was statutorily entitled , from the
Federal Government of Nigeria.
President Buhari had in keeping with his austere, spartan and frugal
disposition shunned most of his entitlements as a former Head of State,
but was prevailed upon by his supporters to accept the two vehicles for
his personal safety in the aftermath of the dastardly attempt to
assassinate him.
It is preposterous to think that the President will allow his acclaimed
reputation of honesty and incorruptibility to be tarnished by accepting a
questionable monetary compensation from a discredited regime.
Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
December 15, 2015
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