#MinisterialScreening-Fayemi,Onu,Audu Ogbe & other nominees defend their nominations

The screening of ministerial nominees is on now ...

During former Ekiti State governor,Kayode Fayemi's screening, while responding to questions about the alleged N50m bed he built in the Ekiti state government house , the former governor said the government house he met was a 2 bedroom apartment government house and so decided to build a befitting government house.

"I challenge anybody who claims that I bought a bed for N50 million to prove it. Anyone one who knows me personally knows that I am not given to frivolities. Not even a bed of N1.5 million is there. I left everything behind when I left. All I did was to build a befitting government house for the state.”

During Chief Audu Obe's screening ,he was asked since he was minister in 1983, what does he intend to bring to the table now in line with change..He said

Since I left here, I have been in the school of life, traveling round the world,looking at issues of Agriculture and why we fail.First, we have the worst seed to plant in comparison to others.A cow in Nigeria gives one litre of milk a day and a cow in Zimbabwe gives 15 litres a day and in Europe, 40 litres a day .We are in danger, I don't know how many of us receive text mgs of account numbers everyday
We must have extension centers.We spend almost 22 billion naira year importing food .

Another issue affecting Agric is interest rates,China 6/12percent,Nigeria 35percent.Unless you are producing cocaine how do you invest at 35 percent and make profit .?

 Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu (Former governor Old Abia State) On questions on how electricity can be made steady and unemployment can be tackled,he said
  

One reason we have not done so well in power is because we allow crude oil and natural gas to keep generating the same revenue.We have to look at developed countries who diversified power generation.In Nigeria,we rely on hydro and natural gas.In Tanzania, they have shut down their hydro-generating facilities because of inadequate rainfall. We have abundance of coal,if we can utilize coal for power generation.Nigerian coal is one of the best in the world because the sulfur content is low ,Use coal to produce power .
We needto produce ormanufacture .Weneed enough powerto do so,.For example, you cann it solve the problem of unemployment unless you increase production.There was atimein Nigeria weexportedrice.But recently,we werespending as much as onebillion naira aday importing rice.
So in terms of unemployment,we need to produce more than we are doing now.

 Do you think the non inclusion of Nigerian youths by Buhari in the ministerial list is in order

I haven't seen the last batch.So please allow me not to answer this until I see the balance.I only saw the first 21names.

Would keep updating this post...