Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja
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.
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