President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday set his administration a target of overcoming the security challenges facing the country by mid-year.
Jonathan gave the assurance in an interview to Yonhap News Agency on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea.
The President attended the two-day summit alongside other world leaders.
Jonathan said, “In terms of security challenges we have in some parts of the country where we have terrorist attacks. But it doesn’t affect the whole country. “In terms of security of individual, we will have control in the middle of this year. (The danger) is limited to some parts of the country. It doesn’t extend to other was parts of the country.”
The President asked South Korean business to expand their investments in building Nigeria’s infrastructure for the energy and telecommunications sectors, in particular, adding that other areas and public sector had been opened up.
He said since Nigeria is blessed with lots of natural resources, and South Korea an industrialised country, a collaboration between the countries would be mutually beneficial.
He said, “Nigeria is a very, very green area for investors. Before this time, during the military rule, you don’t know who is the next President. When a new government comes, there is a new policy and those policies are not attractive to investors.
“Basically from 1999 to date, we have established democratic government. Before I took over, I was Vice-President. The President was very ill and people thought there would be militaristic intervention.
“We conducted an election.
“Politically, we are stable. For investors, Nigeria has strong law, and media. No President can just change any law that can affect investors.”
Jonathan said for any nation to move forward, its citizens must be ready to make sacrifices.
He recalled that Asian nations made a lot of sacrifices before arriving at their current state.
Meanwhile, the Nuclear Security Summit ended on Tuesday with the participants acknowledging that nuclear terrorism remained one of the most challenging threats to international security.
They reached a consensus to adopt more proactive auditing and accounting procedures in securing vulnerable nuclear materials from getting into wrong hands.
They therefore called for more monitoring, apprehension and prosecution of breaches of conventions by individuals and corporate organisations or non-state actors as a means of effectively countering the threat of nuclear terrorism and making the world safer for all.
The communiqué read in part, ““We reaffirm the essential responsibility and central role of the IAEA in strengthening the International nuclear security framework, and recognise the value of the IAEA nuclear security plan 2010-2013. “We will work to ensure that the IAEA continues to have appropriate structure, resources and expertise needed to support the implementation of nuclear security objectives. “To this end, we encourage States in a position to do so and the nuclear industry to increase voluntary contributions to IAEA’s Nuclear Security Fund, as well as in-kind contributions.”
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Mr President, why cant u just keep quiet and act for Christ sake......let Nigerians talk based on ur results and not you making unrealistic promises all the time.....May God help you
ReplyDeleteMr. President, we Nigerians are tired of hearing and making some promises not fulfilled, why not go ahead and do what you say, we Nigerians are here to see the outcome of your work (result)and to see that's your challenge to other countries. May God help you.
ReplyDeletewe want it now pls mr president.Remain blessed
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