Sanusi Lamido Sanusi's latest rebuttal of his controversial statement
over the week where he purportedly called for the sack of half the
country's work force, will still land him in hot waters – this time,
with the political elite.
Sanusi, while speaking to Channels Television's correspondent,
Chukwuma Onuekwusi, in London at the end of the 13th session of the
Honorary International Investors council meeting, said that those
calling for his sack "are shying away from the reality of the time".
Also clearing the air on his statement, Sanusi said he was not talking
about the sack of civil servants but a reduction in the size of
political appointees who take 70 percent of government revenue leaving
a mere 30 percent for the 160 million Nigerians.
According to him "what Nigeria is practising is an American system of
government that is very expensive".
-CHANNELSTV