President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that his
fight against corruption and the Boko Haram terrorism bedeviling the North-east
region has achieved a significant landmark.
The president disclosed this in Yola, the Adamawa State
capital, on Tuesday while declaring a
two-day ‘Anti-corruption Summit’ opened which was convened by the state
government with a theme: ‘Performance Based Governance, Transparency,
Accountability and Social Values’.
"We as government are happy that what we
envisaged about two and a half years ago-the teething problems facing the
country-has recorded adequate progress,” Buhari stated.
The president also called on other states governors
to key into the fight against corruption so that the fight would permeate the local
government areas and the grassroots in the country.
He reminded the executive and legislative houses at
all tiers of government that team work and cordial relationship between them
are the bedrock of the development the country is yearning for.
Buhari, who was in Yola in company of the Governors
of Kaduna and Bauchi States, Mallam
Nasir El-Rufai and Abubakar Mohammed respectively, and the Secretary of the
Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, as well as the acting
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),Ibrahim Magu, inaugurated
a township road.
Responding, the Governor of Adamawa State, Mohammed
Jibrilla Bindow, said the state government has decided to key into the federal government fight against
corruption by organising an anti-corruption
summit so that the fight against corruption would permeate the grassroots.
The governor also commended the president in the
fight against terrorism in the country especially the Northeast, adding that
state government was trying to emulate the federal government.
Shortly after the arrival of the president at the Yola International Airport, the EFCC
boss, Magu, decorated some personalities with EFCC emblems.
Magu explained that the aim of decorating some
personalities with EFCC emblems is to identify with them in the collective
approach of fighting corruption by all.
Buhari later proceeded with his entourage from the airport
to the Palace of the Lamido Adamawa, Alhaji Mohammedu Aliyu Mustafa, for a
courtesy call.
Receiving the president, Lamido Adamawa gave the assurance
that traditional rulers in the state had since keyed into the anti-corruption
stance of the federal government.
He commended
the Buhari’s administration for its uprightness in the fight against insurgency
and corruption, and putting the economy back on stream.
The Lamido also requested from the president to
convert Moddibo Adama University of Technology (MAUTECH) to a conventional university;
the Federal Medical Centre Yola to a teaching hospital and should expend the
Chuchi Dam to improve dry season farming in the state.
He also endorsed the second term bid of the
president, encouraging him to contest 2019.
Responding, President Buhari reiterated the stance
of his government to fight corruption to its lowest ebb.
He told traditional rulers to be upright in the
present fight against herdsmen/farmers crises.
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