He stressed that even friends of President Muhammadu Buhari know that he would not cover them in allegations of corruption.
According to him, fighting corruption
was the priority of the government, stressing that it has been the major
drain on the country’s resources.
A statement issued by Senior Special
Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande
said Osinbajo spoke when a group of Radio Journalists and Producers
visited him at the Presidential Villa.
Osinbajo said: “No one would be spared
in the fight against corruption because even the close friends of the
President know that they will not be spared, he will not cover for them.
Fighting corruption is a priority.”
Osinbajo said implementation plans for
the effective commencement of a number of the social investment
programmes of the Buhari-led administration has reached advanced stages
as the selection of the first 200,000 unemployed graduates to get jobs
was being completed.
“We expect that before the end of the
month, we will engage 200,000 out of the 500,000 unemployed graduates
the Buhari administration plans to hire in the N-Power jobs programme,”
he said.
According to him, the direct government
jobs was meant to keep young people occupied, pay them some amount of
money and also give them a device, which would also help them to learn
several skills that they can develop.
Osinbajo disclosed that the Home-Grown School Feeding programme was set to kick off in several states this month.
He added that the school feeding
programme “will energise agriculture in the different states because it
is what you plant that you feed the children with, we will be hiring
caterers, cooks, etc in each state because it will be Federal Government
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