The transportation minister Rotimi Amaechi says that restructuring is not Nigeria's "most critical problem".
He says that there is nothing wrong with the call for restructuring but that the country had more pressing matters.
Amaechi said this during an interview on the Sunday Politics programme on Channels TV.
He said, “If to you what is important is restructuring, I don’t see anything wrong with restructuring but I am saying it is not the most critical problem we have.”
He asserted that Muhammadu Buhari's administration was working to create employment that would in effect "create security".
“If you are able to create employment, you create security. If you like hire as many men as you want to hire that are policemen, you would do nothing until you put food in the hands of people,” he remarked.
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Adding, “When you do not create a legitimate economy, the people will create for themselves an illegitimate economy and be able to feed themselves.”
Amaechi described the insecurity in the country as "a different kind".
“We are facing a different kind of insecurity.
“When we were in power as governors, the problem we were facing was Boko Haram. Not is it much more than Boko Haram. We need to address those issues.”
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