President Muhammadu
Buhari on Tuesday raised the alarm that another social crisis looms in the
country if the two million Nigerians displaced by the Boko Haram sect currently
in refugee camps were not properly resettled.
According to a
statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu,
the President spoke at a meeting he had with the world leader of the Tijjaniya
Islamic Movement, Sheikh Sharif Ibn Mohammad, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He was said to have
lamented the destruction of public institutions in the North-East by Boko Haram
terrorists.
“Government is faced
with the problem of repairing schools, health centres and whole towns. We must
repair their schools and recruit teachers otherwise they will become tomorrow’s
Boko Haram,” Buhari warned.
The President
reiterated the importance of justice in the affairs of governance, emphasising
that men and women in authority must show kindness and justice to all the
people under them.
In commending the
religious group for the prayers they had rendered for three days in Yola,
Adamawa State for the recovery of the economy and peace in the country, the
President said that the problem oil production was experiencing in the country
and in the global market had forced the imperative of agriculture on Nigerians.
“We are learning the
hard way. The mistake we made was to abandon agriculture. We came
at a time of difficulty the country has never experienced since the Civil War,”
he said.
Buhari also
requested religious leaders to persuade Nigerians to embrace hard work,
endurance and patience.
He assured Nigerians
that his administration would not relent in the effort to achieve self-reliance
and security for the nation.
In his remarks, Sheikh
Mohammad commended Buhari’s sense of justice and concern for the people of
Nigeria.
He assured the
President that the Tijjaniya movement was in full support of the administration
and would continue to pray for its success. Punch
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