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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari in his interview withe the Voice of America has revealed more details about the fight against insurgency and corruption in the country, things it's believed he didn't mention in the interview with CNN.
When quizzed if his plan to tackle insurgency in the country will be successful following increased bombings across the nation, Buhari answered in the affirmative.
"We have killed the commanders. New set of troops have been trained and the multinational joint task force, comprising of troops from Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Benin Republic, are being heard in the theater of operations, so really this is the practical and the realistic way the problem can be fixed.
He also said his government plans to institute discipline and constitutional respect among government officials.
"What we intend to do is to insist that whatever institution do is constitutional. And what is not constitutional, must be properly explained. For example, this lifting… illegal lifting of crude. You can see that the humans were forged. And it is done sometimes, a lot of times, with the cooperation of members of the NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation).
"Certainly [Nigerian oil officials] can’t say they are loading Nigerian crude into an unknown unregistered ships, so there is a lot of disrespect for the laws of the country that had been taking place for more than 10 years and that shouldn’t frustrate us, or stop us from operating,” said Buhari, a former top oil industry executive.
"We just draw our lines, we continue, but wherever we uncover that public funds has been siphoned, or crude has been stolen, we will trace it through the movements of the ships, through the accounts of people it went through,” he said. “This cannot be done overnight.
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When quizzed if his plan to tackle insurgency in the country will be successful following increased bombings across the nation, Buhari answered in the affirmative.
"We have killed the commanders. New set of troops have been trained and the multinational joint task force, comprising of troops from Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Benin Republic, are being heard in the theater of operations, so really this is the practical and the realistic way the problem can be fixed.
He also said his government plans to institute discipline and constitutional respect among government officials.
"What we intend to do is to insist that whatever institution do is constitutional. And what is not constitutional, must be properly explained. For example, this lifting… illegal lifting of crude. You can see that the humans were forged. And it is done sometimes, a lot of times, with the cooperation of members of the NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation).
"Certainly [Nigerian oil officials] can’t say they are loading Nigerian crude into an unknown unregistered ships, so there is a lot of disrespect for the laws of the country that had been taking place for more than 10 years and that shouldn’t frustrate us, or stop us from operating,” said Buhari, a former top oil industry executive.
"We just draw our lines, we continue, but wherever we uncover that public funds has been siphoned, or crude has been stolen, we will trace it through the movements of the ships, through the accounts of people it went through,” he said. “This cannot be done overnight.
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