Return Your Loot if You Want Peace -Buhari

   

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has told the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), and  other similar groups in the region bombing oil and gas instal­lations, that Nigeria’s unity is not negotiable.
As he  also informed those still in possession of public funds to return them for them to enjoy peace, saying his administration will not stop until all monies looted from the nation are recovered because the country is in dire need of resources for development.


Buhari who spoke at the  Presidential Villa when he received a delegation of Abuja-based residents compromising Christians, Muslims as well as top government officials led by the Fed­eral Capital Territory (FCT) minister, Bello Muhammad, who came to pay the traditional Eid-el-Fitr Sal­lah homage to him, recalled former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon’s famous quote, “to keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done.”

He said, “On security we have made a lot of improvement, boko haram, militants there is improve­ment. We are now concentrating on the militants to know how many of them exist in terms of groupings and leadership and plead with them to try and give Nigeria a chance. I assure them that the saying by Gen. Gowon that to keep Nigeria is a task that must be done. In those days we never thought of oil, all our concern was to keep Nigeria one. So please pass this to the militants, that one Nigeria is not negotiable and they had better accept. Nigerian constitution is clear as to what they should get and I as­sure them there will be justice.

On his anti-corruption crusade, the president said “please tell those with plenty of money that does not belong to them to try and negotiate and return it in peace so that both they and us will be in peace, otherwise, we will continue to look for it”.