Clamp down on rampaging herdsmen, Buhari tells security agencies
President Muhammadu Buhari shaking hands with Rev Mathew Kukah when the President received a contingent of Nigerian Catholic Bishops at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Monday, May 2, 2016. PHOTO: STATE HOUSE
President Muhammadu Buhari has restated his administration’s resolve to deal decisively and expeditiously with reported cases of continued attacks on communities across the country by armed herdsmen.
The president spoke on Monday night at a meeting with members of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) held in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
A statement issued on Tuesday by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said that President Buhari confirmed that heads of national security agencies had been ordered to take all necessary action to apprehend and expose those behind the heinous attacks.
“We are determined to secure all Nigerians and I have told the Inspector-General of Police and other security agencies, in very strong terms, to deal decisively with the attackers,’’ he said.
The President expressed his personal condolences to the Catholic Bishop of Enugu, the people of Ukpabi Nimbo and all other communities that had suffered fatalities and other losses from the recent attacks.
Speaking on other national issues, the statement quoted the President as assuring the Bishops that he was acting with deliberation and moving methodically to implement his Change Agenda for the good of the country.
“We need to rebuild our institutions methodically, we need to change the way we do things. In the last 10 years, crude oil sold for more that $100 per barrel, but Nigeria did not save.
“That is why we have found ourselves where we are today,’’ President Buhari told the Catholic Bishops, led by Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama, the Archbishop of Jos.”
The President assured them that his administration was working very hard to fulfill all the promises it had made to Nigerians.
According to him, his greatest motivating factor now is the desire to bring positive change to Nigeria.
On behalf of the bishops, Kaigama expressed the solidarity of the CBCN with the President.
“We are willing to collaborate with you and with your administration, in which we see hope for a greater Nigeria,’’ he said.”
The bishops pledged continued prayers for Nigeria and the government, expressing their conviction that “current hardships are temporary, and Nigeria will soon overcome its present difficulties’’.
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Just like his cows, he seems to need a rod to move. Hmmm!!!
Even Moses needed a rod to lead the Jews to the promised land
But he Moses never made it to the Promise Land. And that was exactly what Damilola was talking about. Buhari is not going anywhere with Nigeria.
What I’m even saying is that, as a flock of sheep needed to be struck with Cain to move to direction, so is the aboki who saw nothing in the menace of his brothers until he got the Cain from Nigerians.
Looooolz… d rod was not used on Moses, but on the sea. This one seems to be waiting for a rod to be struck at his back like a cow to move
The same rod is being struck on the backs of our red sea: Metuh, Diezani, Dasuki, Saraki, Stell Oduah, and co. Just like the red sea, they too must part
“In the last 10 years, crude oil sold for more that $100 per barrel, but Nigeria did not save.” COULD THESE WAILING WAILERS TELL US SOMETHING BETTER PLEASE?
Are you saying Buhari’s statement is untrue? are you saying it is perfectly ok to keep running our Nation without any savings for the uncertainties in the future? Norway, an oil producing Nation like ours have over $800B in cash reserves. which they jealously guard for the future citizens and children.
All we hear is wicked and Mind bugging sums being stolen by the immediate past Government officials…….incidentally over 230-50 different people have been mentioned and charged with large sums embezzlement and NOT one of them have vehemently come out on the newspapers or otherwise to deny he was not found in possession of the stolen funds they were charged for.
I wish someone could help us with a list of those 230-50 different people, indicating their tribes so that we can know THE MOST THIEVING TRIBE OF NIGERIA.
Why is it that Nigeria didn’t save. Ask oshomole and amechi, d presido right hand men. They should be able to explain better to Nigerians why we couldn’t save the excess money from sale of crude.
How can a terrorist give security? Who then is the one inflicting death? “Look, if what happened in 2011 should repeat itself in 2015, dogs & baboons will be soaked in blood”. In 2011, more than 1000 mostly Igbo were killed because of Buhari’s loss to GEJ. & that was after 13 containers of arms being brought in by the north from Iran, including rocket launchers, were already siezed at Lagos port.
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