President Buhari: My Fight Against Corruption, Terrorism Has Achieved Significant Landmark

 

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.