By Olanrewaju Ajao President Muhammadu Buhari has said that government appreciated the enormity of the security challenges confronting the country, promising to do its best to make sure the Boko Haram elements allow peace to reign, even if it means persuading them.
He spoke on Friday while receiving top government functionaries who paid him the traditional Christmas homage in his residence at the presidential Villa, Abuja.
According to him, “We appreciate that the security agencies are doing their and their best is showing and we have to continue praying for them.
“There can be no development without security, we have to continue to pray for them
“If we have 2million people are IDP and 70 per cent are women and children and 70 per cent of them are children, some them are orphans, they grew up not knowing their parents, tradition or culture
“As leaders, we have a weighty responsibility to ensure that infrastructure for the orphans are taken care of.
“As leaders, we wake with the feeling for those children, the most important thing is that they must not be denied education, schools must be rebuild, we also thank Danjuma and the G7 led by the U.S. they have been doing their best to help Nigeria to train our military and
“Boko Haram, this government is determined to make sure that we persuade them if they can be persuaded, we will use government institutions to persuade them to allow peace to reign.
“We need to come together and pull the country out of this problem that we find ourselves, everybody in the world believes that Nigeria is a lucky country because of its natural resources. Our problem is how to organize ourselves and how to get the right leadership in place,” the President said.
