The President made the call at a town hall meeting he had with
members of the Nigerian community in Doha, Qatar on Sunday, according to
a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi
Adesina.
The President reportedly assured them that the Federal Government
would continue to create the enabling environment for investments in the
country, anchored on peace and security.
The President said, “We have abundant natural and human resources in the country, including huge oil and gas deposit.
“But the challenge is securing those installations and to persuade
some of our countrymen to be more patriotic and stop sabotaging the
installations.
“When people are being abducted and some are being murdered, when
installations are being blown up now and then, the incentives for people
to invest in our infrastructure are quite slim.”
Buhari also promised to look into the complaints of alleged blanket
denial of visas to families and relatives of Nigerians intending to
visit the State of Qatar.
“Like I tell other Nigerians living in other countries, you must be
good ambassadors of the country because globally things are quite
difficult in terms of security and the economy.
“If you have something doing, please hold it tight to your heart and
try to improve on it because things are quite difficult all over.
“For us in Nigeria, we are trying to do our best to reduce
unemployment and we realised this quite early enough, that is why we
campaigned on the diversification of the economy.
Credit: Punch
“We have to go back to agriculture, like in the good old days of
cocoa, palm oil, palm kernel, cottons, groundnuts, hides and skins,” he
said.
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