Abuja – The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi
Amaechi on Tuesday appealed to Nigerians to be patient and give the
administration more time to achieve its objectives.
Making the appeal while answering questions at the forum of the News Agency
of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, Amaechi said:
“We encountered challenges; were we expecting to encounter those
challenges? yes; did we think that we will meet the quantum or
volume of those challenges?
“We didn’t anticipate that things were this bad. We thought you go to
government and there would be money for you to run government and
others.
“Now you have the situation where there is no money to run
government. I hate to use the word difficult; I hate to use the word
impossible but we met things close to difficult and impossibility.
“That is why Nigerians are impatient; they want to see results and
for them, change is not about change in structure, it is about change
in their pocket.
“Because their pocket is getting dried and they wanted us to put some
more resources in their pocket.
“Because of the structural changes that we want to put in place is not
getting all that they want to get.
“ What I usually say to people is that we beg you to give us time; we
will achieve our objective if you give us time and we will both thank
God for that opportunity.’’
He gave an assurance that money recovered from the ongoing corruption fight, would
be used to provide infrastructure.
According to him, the government has started paying contractors not appointed by the current administration, noting that such action represents service delivery to the people. (NAN)