THE President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
Goodluck Jonathan has given firm assurance that
Nigerians by December 2014, would begin to enjoy
uninterrupted power supply with nothing less than
10,000 megawatts.

Addressing top members of The Guardian during his
visit at the Guardian Editorial Conference room on
Thursday, the Senior Special Assistant to the
President on Publicity, Dr. Doyin Okupe said
Jonathan administration inherited power crisis with
its attendant problems on generation, transmission
and distribution, which Nigerians would put behind
them after the year 2014.
Okupe who described President Jonathan as though
quiet, but intelligent who does not make noise of
what he is doing, but really working to fix various
problems confronting the nation, added that he is
concerned about the security issues in the country.

According to Okupe, Jonathan is addressing the two
major problems bordering on insecurity in the
nation which include the Boko Haram insurgence as
well as the issue of kidnapping. He said while Boko
Haram issue was located in the Northern part of
the country, the problem of kidnapping has been
pronounced in the Southern part of the Country and
occasionally in Lagos.

“The issue of Boko Haram has a political undertone
but some elites in the North have passionately
made submissions to the President that though
members of the sect had gone too far with much
damage done, they should consider the way out they
have preferred which they believed would bring
peace and an end to the sect’s incessant assault.
“A right thinking person would normally give a
thought to anything that would bring peace at last
which the President is considering.

“I want to assure you that the Federal Government
and Security Forces have what it takes to
militarily end Boko Haram, but there is no need for
that,” he said. Okupe on the issue of corruption also said that Jonathan administration was determined to fight corruption, which has become endemic in the nation,and which has been aided by the unwholesome
attitude of judges in Nigeria. He also indicted
Judges who unnecessarily prolong cases in court so
that people accused of corruption are not punished
in time. He cited the case of the recent three
Judges who took bribes and placed under discipline.
Commenting on the issue of Agriculture, he relayed
the president’s promise that by 2015, Nigeria would be self-sufficient in rice production.

“Nigeria has not only overtaken Indonesia in
Cassava production, but today can boast of 40
million tons of the product leaving the shores of
the nation on exportation while Cocoa production
has also gone from 250,000 tons to 500,000 tons
per annum”.

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