President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Nigeria will win the war on terror the same way we won the war against Ebola.
Jonathan who spoke during a New Year Service at Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Abuja said “you would have noticed that from Christmas to New Year, at least, it has been calm. It did not happen by accident.
“It happened because you have been praying for this country and the government has also been doing something. We do not need to announce what we are doing.
“With your prayers, we will surely get there. We will continue to come up with programmes that will help the ordinary people. The same way we won the war against Ebola, we shall win the terror war.”
On corruption, he said you cannot just use a magical wand to wave off corruption, you have to put a system in place, he said “there are two main problems confronting us as a nation: The issue of insecurity in the North where we have the Boko Haram terrorists and in the South where we have commercial kidnapping. The next thing that people worry about after security is the issue of corruption.
“We are coming out with programmes and plans to clean up. These are things that you don’t just use a magical wand to wave off, otherwise even before I became the President, there wouldn’t have been corruption in Nigeria.
“It is not just about shouting corruption. It is not about looking at one person, arrest the person and show him on television.
“It is about strengthening institutions and coming up with credible plans to make sure that anybody who gets involved with corruption, the system must have a way of detecting him and punishing him.
“Until you put such a system on ground, you cannot talk about eradicating corruption, you will just be celebrating corruption.”
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