The president said the National Assembly will be asked to
act on the recommendations of the conference

President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed to act on the
outcome of the planned national conference, by forwarding the recommendations to the National Assembly for legislative action.

Mr Jonathan said Tuesday the outcome of the talks will be
useful for the ongoing constitution amendment.

Mr Jonathan stated this in Abuja on Tuesday when he
received members of the Muslim community who paid him Sallah homage at the presidential villa.

The remarks were his second in two days as he sought to
dispel fears expressed by critics that his government lacks the sincerity and the capacity to implement the outcome of the conference.

The president urged politicians to stop utterances that
incite and instigate hate, saying the dialogue process must lead Nigerians to talk with a direction and not dissension.

“In Nigeria, we must work very hard; we must talk to
ourselves the way that our children will not develop hate
amongst themselves. And that is one of the key reasons
that we decided to have a conversation as a nation,” the
president said.

“At times, when you listen to radio and read the papers,
you see even our elders that are supposed to give us
leadership quarrelling over nothing.

“(And) sometimes, even insulting themselves and even
making provocative statements that will sometimes
instigate one group against the other.

“We decided that we cannot continue that way; the talking must have a direction. What has been happening on the pages of the newspapers are discussions that have no direction.

“We want a country that will have a direction, so the
discussions must have a direction.

“The discussions must lead Nigeria to where we want to
be, not a divided Nigeria, not a Nigeria that is sown on
hate.

“Also not a Nigeria that will be based on acrimony,
ethnicity and tribal sentiments in the way we conduct
ourselves.

“That is a reason we set up that committee and we have
given them the free will.

“Some people are still instigating others that the president is doing this, the government does not have the capacity to do that.’’

Mr Jonathan, however, assured “that government is totally committed to doing what is right.’’

The president further reassured that his administration
would implement the reports of previous committees set
up by government on National Dialogue.

He said some of the reports had already been submitted to the National Assembly for further considerations.

“Even the Justice Uwais’s committee that was set up, that report was passed on to the National Assembly in 2010.

“We brought Belgore and others and I said in 2005
Nigerians discussed some things; why don’t we begin to
implement some of them.

“So, we need to come up with some bills in those areas we have agreed and we will push them to the National
Assembly.

“Of course, some of those bills have not come out from the National Assembly, but we believe that even in the
constitution amendment that is going on, some will be
useful.’’

The president, therefore, enjoined Nigerians to impress it
on their representatives in the National and State Houses
of Assembly to work together and ensure the proposals
were enshrined in the constitution.

He thanked God that in spite of the challenges facing the
country, the Muslims were able to celebrate the Eid-El-
Kabir.

He urged Nigerians to inculcate in their children the virtues that would encourage unity in the country to ensure that the coming generations lived in peace.

“We must build a Nigeria that wherever you go you call the next person your own brother or sister,

“A Nigeria that our young children who will become adult
will say that I am proud to be a Nigerian, not a Nigeria that people will kill them probably because they don’t recognise them.

“The killing has been going on in some parts of the
country; it has nothing to do with religion and ethnicity.

“That is why I asked those who killed those 50 students if
they even bothered about their religion our ethnicity?

“It has nothing to do with religion, it has nothing to do with ethnicity, it is because the world generally is experiencing terrorism.’’

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FTC.

Or do you mean vowed to sweep it under the carpet. Just like his thieving partner Tinubu said, it is just a Greek gift. We have heard lots of lots of promises which ended void.

Where are the refineries promised as at January's 2012, what about good roads, improved health care, improved standard of living for a common man. At 53 we are still debating on paying ASUU or not.

I think these clowns need to Bury their head in cow dung.

Hope the Bourdilion thief will be satisfied with
this respond and stop spreading hate filled propaganda in the media.

Personally, I believe the more we discuss and agree on how the country should be governed and act on it, the less likely Nigeria will end up in flames someday.

If Obasanjo had implemented the 2005 decisions , we would not have had escalated Niger delta crisis and even Boko haram,

Those who make a peaceful resolution of any crisis impossible only make a violent resolution inevitable

words witout action..............!

Mr president, What if one of the outcomes is a request for you not to contest the 2015 general election?

for the conference to make sense, current national assembly need to be sacked or dissolved. they lack integrity as many of them weren't voted in.
talk of asking foxes to guard our hen house.
current national assembly can never implement anything that will lead to genuine progress!