The President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his willingness to end the Boko Haram scourge and bring political, economic stability to the North-east of the country.
He further said he would be resume vigorous search for oil along the Chad Basin in parts of Borno State, also in the northeast.
General Buhari spoke at his residence in Kaduna while responding to requests made by Governor Kashim Shettima, the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai Elkanemi and some elders of the State who formed a delegation from Borno State a congratulatory visit to the President elect.
Buhari said he was very much aware of the problems of the northeast and will not waste time in taking them up one after the other.
He said his administration will enhance collaboration with neighboring Governments of Chad, Niger and Cameroon to curtail the trans border movement of Boko Haram insurgents, cut supply of arms, cut recruitment and training of fresh recruits.
He said stability of the northeast was a must project for his administration noting that nothing can be achieved unless peace was restored to the troubled region.
The President-elect also assured the delegation the receding of lake chad will be addressed through the transfer of water from the central African Republic to the lake to boost it commercial activities for fishing and irrigation farming.
He recalled that he once red a document raising fears about receding of the Lake Chad which he handed over to then President Olusegun Obasanjo but now that he would be coming as President, he will handle the matter.
Buhari said the Lake has the potentials to create millions of jobs through irrigation and many other commercial uses it was associated with many years ago.
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