President Muhammadu Buhari said on Saturday in Jos that Nigeria had entered its glorious era in spite of insecurity and economic challenges.
He stated this on Saturday at the graduation of Senior Executive Course 37 of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS) in Kuru near Jos.
Represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Mr. Buhari said Boko Haram and other such insurgent groups around the country would soon be consigned to history.
While acknowledging that some issues of agitations by some groups and sections in the country could not be ignored, he said creating employment opportunities would reduce the tension.
He charged the institute to conduct comprehensive study on causes of insurgency and how to build civil capacity to defeat mindless violence.
“I want the institute to come up with policies which integrate needs of the vast majority of the populace and not just based on GDP projections.
“MNI’s end up in their offices after their course of study at NIPPS, without the required enthusiasm to enforce implementation of the policies they made.
“I think we must encourage ourselves and take ourselves seriously instead of doing this just to take a title.
“The institute will find a way of monitoring members instead of just producing high quality results which just die here.
“Let’s make efforts to see that those who implement policies use them, “ he said.
The president said that his administration would support the institute with funding, but remarked that corruption was the bane of the nation’s development.
“What has eluded our leadership is not lack of good policies but strength of character to implement them.
“Our problem is not legislative, but lack of political will and weak legal process- delay in the judiciary and suppression of the entire legal system,” he said.
He, however, said his administration would address this and other distortions in the system on which corruption of leadership thrived.
Mr. Buhari called on persons and interest groups within the country to submit to peaceful means of expressing themselves without violating the laws of the land.
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The country is getting worse by the day Mr President. Don't know your intentions but out soldiers are dying. Poverty is killing more than malaria in our beloved country. You sit there plotting against your enemies whilst the country is plunging deep into darkness. Be wise and make the right decisions before more lives will be lost.
ReplyDeleteWhy are we so impatient in Nigeria and why can't we give them time to do quality job ?
ReplyDeleteIt's been barely six month he was ushered in, it's not easy to run the street affairs as Chairman of Landlords association not to talkless of presidency.
Even global executives of this world aren't finding it easy. We shouldn't allow him to be distracted.
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DeleteBuhari you are a failure
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ReplyDeleteThere was nothing as #bringbackoursoldiers in Jonathan time...now both the girls and the soldiers are been captured...shame on you Buhari, you are truly a disgrace to anyone that believed you
ReplyDeleteWe use to think Jonathan was corrupt until Buhari came to power
ReplyDeleteWhy won't u feel country is raising when u use 6 Billion to repair your private gets and yet Efcc puts people under custody for 3million naira, look at the fuel scarcity now, look at bombings in the country , look at our economy, look at the missing soldiers, look at level of unemployment..pls this criminal wht do you say is raising?
ReplyDeleteJonathan wen he was responding to dasukis arms deal said if Nigeria looses over 500 bouillon dollars states n federal won't b able to pay salaries....he indicted himself..dat was exactly wat happened in his regime...29 states owed salaries... .A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE...So he n his cohorts r our problem now
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