At
the new year service of the Dunamis International Gospel Center, the President
reassured Nigerians of his commitment to fighting corruption in the country.
Hhe noted that the two major problems facing the country are insecurity
and corruption. He spoke and i quote:
“There are two main problems confronting us as a
nation: The issue of insecurity in the North where we have the Boko Haram
terrorists and in the South where we have commercial kidnapping. The next thing
that people worry about after security is the issue of corruption. We are
coming out with programmes and plans to clean up. These are things that you
don’t just use a magical wand to wave off, otherwise even before I became the
President, there wouldn’t have been corruption in Nigeria. It is not just about
shouting corruption. It is not about looking at one person, arrest the person
and show him on television,”
He added;
“It is about strengthening institutions and coming
up with credible plans to make sure that anybody who gets involved with corruption,
the system must have a way of detecting him and punishing him. Until you put
such a system on ground, you cannot talk about eradicating corruption, you will
just be celebrating corruption,”
he also stated that his administration is
working hard to fight the menace of insecurity plaguing the country:
“You would have noticed that from Christmas to New
Year, at least, it has been calm. It did not happen by accident. It happened
because you have been praying for this country and the government has also been
doing something. We do not need to announce what we are doing. With your
prayers, we will surely get there. We will continue to come up with programmes
that will help the ordinary people. The same way we won the war against Ebola,
we shall win the terror war,”
He also stated his plans to save our dwindling
economy;
“We are going back to those good
days when we had vision. We have plan for agriculture, we have plan for
industry, we have plan for automobile and many other areas. If you have a
vision, any proposal that comes in, no matter how good they are, must fall into
your vision for it to go through. With your prayers, surely as a nation, we
will get to where our vision will take us to.
“Having passed through school and
being in government for quite some time, I have realised that for you to achieve
anything, you must have a clear vision. If you have a clear vision, even if you
don’t get the exact target, you will get something close to the target."
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