The menace of Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria will soon be a thing of the past, President Goodluck Jonathan has assured. Jonathan gave the assurance yesterday in Ile-Ife when he dropped in to pay homage to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade, on the way to the Peoples Democratic Party campaign rally in Osogbo.
The president vowed to rid the country of insurgency and other forms of criminality, saying that his government is building a strong security infrastructure to deal with the country’s security challenges.
According to reports from This Day, he said, “There are certain things we should have done as a government, but because of the situation in the country, we have not been able to do many of them. The kind of embarrassment we are receiving now, will never continue in this country.
“We want to build a very strong Army, Nigeria Police, Navy, and the Air Force so that these rascals called Boko Haram will never stop us because we will surely rout Boko Haram. We are very committed.
“In the next few months, no criminals will ever embarrass us again – in this country.” The president assured Oba Sijuade that if the PDP candidate won the election in Osun, the federal government will bring development to the state. Earlier, the monarch had while welcoming the president said both Osun State and the South-west needed federal government’s presence the region’s core sectors. “For instance, in the agricultural sector, cocoa farming, which is the mainstay of the economy of South-west, deserves better attention.
In the aviation sector, it would be appreciated if the ongoing upgrading of the Ibadan airport is completed. In the transportation sector, it is high time our railway system was expanded to link the South-west with the South-east through Akure, Owo and Benin,” Oba Sijuade said. Jonathan also paid homage to the Ataoja of Osogbo, Oba Jimoh Olanipekun.