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President Muhammadu Buhari said on Saturday in Jos that Nigeria
had entered its glorious era in spite of insecurity and economic
challenges.
He stated this on Saturday at the graduation of Senior Executive
Course 37 of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies
(NIPPS) in Kuru near Jos.
Represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo , Buhari said that Boko
Haram and other such insurgent groups around the country would
soon be consigned to history.
While acknowledging that some issues of agitations by some groups
and sections in the country could not be ignored, he said that
creating employment opportunities would reduce the tension.
He charged the institute to conduct comprehensive study on causes
of insurgency and how to build civil capacity to defeat mindless
violence.
`` I want the institute to come up with policies which integrate needs
of the vast majority of the populace and not just based on GDP
projections.
``MNI’s end up in their offices after their course of study at NIPPS,
without the required enthusiasm to enforce implementation of the
policies they made.
``I think we must encourage ourselves and take ourselves seriously
instead of doing this just to take a title.
``The institute will find a way of monitoring members instead of just
producing high quality results which just die here.
``Let’s make efforts to see that those who implement policies use
them, `` he said.
The president said that his administration would support the
institute with funding, but remarked that corruption was the bane of
the nation’s development.
``What has eluded our leadership is not lack of good policies but
strength of character to implement them.
``Our problem is not legislative, but lack of political will and weak
legal process- delay in the judiciary and suppression of the entire
legal system, `` he said.
He, however, said that his administration would address this and
other distortions in the system on which corruption of leadership
thrived.
Buhari called on persons and interest groups within the country to
submit to peaceful means of expressing themselves without
violating the laws of the land.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that no fewer than 63
persons graduated as Members of the National Institute (MNI) at
the ceremony, bringing the total number of its granduands since
inception in 1979 to 1,784.