Determined to curtail Boko Haram insurgency,
President Muhammdu Buhari will on Monday
begin a state visit to France to hold talks with
President Francois Hollande. He will also explore opportunities of more
collaboration with Niger, Chad and Cameroon,
which are assisting the nation in the war against
insurgency. The President was quoted as saying “it is more
cost effective politically and economically to be
at peace with your neighbours. This is
something I learnt from the army.”

According to a pre-visit review by the Senior
Special Assistant to the President on Media and
Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, the visit was in
response to President Hollande’s invitation to
President Buhari. He said Hollande had extended olive branch to
Buhari shortly after his election in March. The agenda of the three-day bilateral talks will
include:

1. Security in the Nigeria and the Lake Chad
basin area.

2. Boko Haram insurgency

3. Review of ‘Wish List’

4. To prevail on President Hollande and allies in
G7 to keep their promise to assist Nigeria

5. Access to military hardware, reconstruction
of damaged infrastructure

6. Economy and the war against corruption

He said: “One, he (Hollande) offered the
friendship and partnership of France in
President Buhari’s plan to rid Nigeria of
terrorism and rebuild the country economically. “His pronouncement that relations between our
two countries are “strategic” has equally excited
the Nigerian foreign policy establishment. It
points to Nigeria’s opportunity. “The second thing President Hollande said to
our then President-elect was, “come to France
and let us host to you to a bilateral discussion.”

From here, Hollande, Germany’s Angela Merkel,
Britain’s David Cameron and Obama encouraged
President Buhari to, on getting into office put
together a “wish list” of his government and
country and table it at the “G7” meeting in
Germany early in June, with a promise to come to the aid of our country. Shehu gave elaborate details on why the visit
was important to the war against Boko Haram
insurgency. He added: “Lastly and more importantly is the
issue of security in the country and the Lake
Chad basin area.

“Since his assumption of office, President Buhari
has squared up to the threat of Boko Haram
terrorism with a single-minded determination.
Without waiting for the envisaged foreign
support and assistance, Boko Haram is near
resolution. “If they were correctly reported in their press
conference a few days ago, the military has
indeed declared victory in the war. But the
world still needs to come together to help this
country manage its fallout. “In this regard, President Hollande needs to
make his friends and allies in the G7 to sharpen
their response and keep their promise of
assistance for which President Buhari was
requested to present a wish list.

“So far, there is evidence of that support in the
areas of training and the sharing of intelligence.
But beyond these, it is hard to say that we are
getting commensurate responses to the high
hopes that we harboured in dealing with the
war and reconstruction. “Such promises, especially as regards access to
military hardware and the reconstruction of
damaged infrastructure, donated or paid for
should be pursued so that the victory over
terror in our region is not a temporary one but
one that will usher in permanent peace, tranquility and wealth for our beleaguered
populations and the part of the continent they
occupy.” On the economy, Shehu said the meeting will
also focus on it since France investment in
Nigeria is the largest in Africa. He said: “It is equally fundamental that France’s
investment on the African continent is the
largest in Nigeria. And it is still growing. French
interests here are strongly represented by such
companies as Total, ELF, LaFarge, Societe-
Generale, SCOA and so on.

“The best outcome for Nigeria during this visit
should reflect favourably on key priorities of the
Buhari administration, which are security,
economy and the war against corruption. “An added one would be the strengthening of
cultural cooperation. That should hopefully be
beneficial to both states. “We as a country are in the midst of our French-
speaking siblings in Niger, Chad, Cameroon and
Benin bordering this country to the North, East
and West. The attitude of our authorities to this
ground reality has not been very good so far.”


Cc: lalasticlala


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Ok

World Tour on BokoHaram.

"I will crush them in two months" "as a general,he will lead the fight from the front"

Fly around Buhari.APC! Chanji!!


IPOB Youth

Recently, this man started talking about reducing our embassies outside in order to cut costs and make the remaining ones very functional. Now how can these embassies be ever functional if buhari can never learn to use our ambassadors well. Won't it be cheaper if Buhari stops acting like foreign affairs minister.

Every time the presidential jet is started, millions of naira vaporizes into thin air. In just 100 days this man has broken world record of the most traveled president in the universe.

Buhari practice what you preach.

The Dullard on the move again!

baba loves to fly. kotinu.

Mopolchi:
baba loves to fly. kotinu.

so he is a bird bah?

zinachidi:
so he is a bird bah?

maybe witchcraft instincts

Sai Buhari....you are doing well

zinachidi:
so he is a bird bah?

no be wetin I talk.

K

dauradollard aka the tourist

keep travelling while ur stockmarket and conomy collapses

issoka

Safe trip

Mopolchi:
no be wetin I talk.

ok, na wetin u dey imply na...lol

Oh, PMB is meeting with the commander of the french wing of Boko Haram?

We shall see the outcome.

zinachidi:
ok, na wetin u dey imply na...lol

no be wetin I imply.

Mopolchi:
no be wetin I imply.

ok, so na wetin u get for mind na??

zinachidi:
ok, so na wetin u get for mind na??

that he loves traveling.