Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, yesterday replied
critics of the "Change Begins with Me" campaign that was launched on
September 8th. Speaking to a delegation of the National Council of
Women’s Societies, NCWS who paid him a courtesy call in his office in
Abuja yesterday September 20th, Lai Mohammed said
"So many people have criticised the campaign. Some have said that the
campaign ought to start from the top. We completely agree with them, but
their criticism is because they did not understood the campaign.
The campaign actually started from the top, because
we are doing what we are preaching. This is the least ostentatious
cabinet you can ever have. We are all living and showing good examples.
We obey traffic rules. We queue up at public places and get to work
early and close late. Some people said that we should wait for the
economy to improve before we start the campaign, but we say no, for two
reasons: If only those before us have launched the campaign, we will not
be where we are today. If the campaign had sunk in, there will be no
embezzlement, no corruption and no impunity. You cannot say, as a
mother, that because you are poor, you will allow your daughter to go
out from morning till midnight without correcting her. Though we are
facing difficulties now, we still have to tell Nigerians the need to do
the right things”he said
