President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration will
deploy everything within its powers to end insecurity in Nigeria.
Buhari spoke on Tuesday during a dinner with members of the
national assembly in Abuja.
The meeting was attended by the 109 senators and 360 members
of house of representatives.
Buhari said “insecurity, manifesting as insurgencies, banditry,
kidnapping and urban crime of all sorts is the single most difficult challenge
we face today”.
He said available resources will be deployed to ensure that
perpetrators of criminal activities are brought to book.
“Some of the people who perpetuate these various
manifestations of insecurity do so for profit, others, in the name of
discredited ideologies,” he said.
“Whatever their motivations may be, their actions are an
existential threat to our country.
“In the circumstances,
we must do everything within our power, without consideration of distractions,
to put an end to their activities and bring them to book.
“We cannot allow ourselves to be distracted from this
objective, or waver in our commitment, and I am confident that together we will
triumph in our present efforts.”
Buhari commended the ninth national assembly for their
legislative actions, saying the lawmakers are “full partners in national
development”.
He hailed the minority parties in the legislature for their
cooperation and support for government programmes.
The president also appreciated the leadership of both
chambers for “overcoming the political and other obstacles that have for two
decades, inhibited the much-needed reforms of our oil and gas industry,
resulting now in the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB)”.
“Our ability to govern in the best interests of the Nigerian
people depends to a great deal on effective collaboration and partnership
between the legislature and the executive,” he said.
“The obligation to check and balance each other is not an
invitation to conflict, and it should not be characterised by quarrelsome
disagreement when consultation, engagements and compromise have proven time and
again to be a more effective approach.
“In the 9th Assembly, you have distinguished yourselves by
your conduct in office, by the scale and quality of your legislative
interventions, and by your capacity for engaging with the difficult questions
facing the country with maturity and competence.”
Buhari urged the senate and House of Representatives to
jointly review shared commitments, to identify what has been achieved, and what
is still left undone following the conclusion of the second legislative year.
He said this would ensure that “we can prioritise activities
and allocate the resources necessary to ensure that in the lifetime of this
assembly, and of the administration, we can complete the work we have started,
and leave behind a record of achievement that will stand all of us in good
stead in the assessment of history”.
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