President Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday that the fight against corruption was aimed at saving the soul of the nation.\u00a0Buhari, represented by Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, disclosed this at the second plenary meeting of Catholic Bishops` Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), at Igwurita, near Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n
Buhari also said that the fight against corruption was for the substance of the nation.<\/p>\n
Vice President , Prof Yemi Osinbajo, President Catholic Bishop of Nigeria, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama and Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike during the Catholic Bishop Conference held in Port Harcourt on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur fight against corruption is not just a battle of virtue and righteousness in our land, but it is a fight for the soul and substance of our nation.<\/p>\n
\u201cCorruption in our country is endemic and it constitutes a parallel system,\u201c he said.\u00a0According to the President, corruption has made a potentially prosperous country struggle to feed and provide jobs for its people.<\/p>\n
\u201cHundreds of thousands of infants and maternal mortality statistics, hundreds of thousands deaths from communicable diseases are traceable to the greed and corruption of a few,\u201c he said.\u00a0Buhari urged Nigerians to think of resuscitating the nation`s economy because two-thirds of Nigerians lived in extreme poverty.<\/p>\n
He said that efforts should be made to create an enabling environment for enterprise, plan and make a budget that would cater for poor Nigerians.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey must be helped, first to survive, and then, fully participate in the economy of the nation.\u00a0\u201cConsequently, we must create tenets for the very poor and vulnerable, while ensuring that social spending also resurrects investments in the economy.\u00a0\u201cWe must invest substantially in relevant education; teachers training and vocational and entrepreneurial training,\u201c Buhari said.<\/p>\n
The President said one way out, was for all Nigerians to invest in infrastructure and all crucial components in the medium and long term means of diversifying the economy.\u00a0\u201cMeanwhile, we must block all leakages and improve on our revenue base,\u201c he said.\u00a0On insurgency, Buhari said Boko Haram had been weakened and lacked the strength to occupy the North-East zone or any part of the country.<\/p>\n
He also said the military was now using vigilance and local intelligence to thwart efforts of Boko Haram to regroup in the North-East or any part of the country.\u00a0\u201cOn security, we are on course to militarily route Boko Haram and make them incapable of taking over any territory.\u00a0\u201cSuicide bombings on some parts of the North- East are desperate acts of terrorists to create a sense that they are still in play.Picture 2:Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike and Rivers State Deputy Governor, Dr Ipalibo Harry Banigo at the Port Harcourt International Airport on Sunday during the Vice President\u2019s One day Visit to the State<\/p>\n
\u201c But, with vigilance and local intelligence, we will make these cowardly acts practically impossible,\u201c he said.\u00a0Earlier, the President of CBCN, Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama, said that the new administration in the country would recover the country`s wasted opportunities.<\/p>\n
Kaigama, who is also the Archbishop of Jos, said the church would continue to pray and preach for Nigerians to be patriotic.<\/p>\n
\u201c The tendency to promote, defend, and protect narrow personal economic, regional and religious interests have been responsible for our unstable national journey of one step forward and many steps backward,\u201c he said\u00a0Kaigama expressed optimism that the new administration would achieve positive change and recover wasted opportunities.<\/p>\n
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