ANTI-CORRUPTION: BUHARI’S FRIENDS WON’T BE SPARED – OSINBAJO

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo Tuesday said no one would be spared in the ongoing fight against corruption.

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 Governm