President Muhammadu Buhari has said that it is not easy for his administration to fight terrorism, oil theft and corruption at the same time.

But he said in spite of the difficulties being faced in fighting these scourge, his administration would not relent in eliminating the vices from the nation’s body polity.

Buhari said this when the President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbe, visited him in Abuja on Thursday.

The President, who expressed appreciation for Gnassingbe’s visit and for his concern about regional security, said his regime was being challenged with the Boko Haram insurgency, oil theft, illegal fishing, oil pollution and illegal dumping of toxins in the country.

Buhari said it was not easy for his administration, which he said, was fighting on many fronts.

According to him, the government is contending with insurgency in the North-East and oil theft in the South-South while trying to provide infrastructure in the country at the same time.

He said, “His (Gnassingbe’s) concern about regional security made it imperative for him to organise a summit on maritime security and development in November to examine a lot of issues.

“As for Nigeria, we are grateful for the sympathy and the goodwill expressed, touching on the performance of our armed forces and law enforcement agencies, since this administration came into being. It is not easy trying to fight on so many fronts, the North-East, the South-South and then try to provide infrastructure in our country.”

The President observed that the cooperation of the regional countries comprising Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Benin Republic had resulted in the isolation of Boko Haram and peace in the region.

He also advised African countries to pay attention to agriculture and manufacturing to provide jobs for the jobless.

Earlier, the Togolese President had invited Buhari to a security and piracy summit scheduled for Lome in November.

Gnassingbe said his country was organising the summit because $7bn had been lost to piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.

The Togolese leader told Buhari that the security summit would deal with issues of piracy, oil theft, environmental pollution, immigration as well as human and drug trafficking.

He therefore called on African nations to collaborate to combat the scourge and security challenges in the sub-region.

Gnassingbe commended Buhari and the Nigerian security forces for the work they were doing to combat terrorism in West Africa.

When asked by journalists if African countries were not hosting too many summits, Gnassingbe disagreed, saying the summits were not enough.

He said, “Piracy alone costs the Gulf of Guinea $7bn a year, that is what we lose for not combating it and we also know that without cooperation you cannot combat piracy, but the first stage is to come together and talk.

“If all the African countries are on the same page, it would be easy to tackle the security

challenges, so we have to keep holding summits, because individual countries cannot combat piracy effectively without cooperation.

“If you try to fight them in Togo, they go to the next country, then you don’t have the mechanism to go into the other countries. So, summits are necessary, they are not even sufficient.”

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PMB we know you are up to the task that is why we voted you. We know the road to fight terrorism, piracy, corruption will be rough but we are solidly behind you. Carry go Sai baba

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This guy likes complaining jare!!

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IT'S ONLY THE CLUELESS AND DISHONEST ONES THAT WILL DECEIVE NIGERIANS WITH SWEET WORDS THAT NIGERIA IS AN EASY PLACE TO RULE EVEN WITH THE AWARENESS THAT OUR DEAR COUNTRY IS FILLED WITH DIVERSE PEOPLE FROM VARIOUS ETHNIC GROUPS WITH MULTIPLICITY OF LANGUAGES.
THANK GOD WE HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO IS HONEST AND CREDIBLE WHO TELLS US THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. MAY THE GOOD LORD KEEP YOU FOCUSED AND HEALTHY MY ABLE PRESIDENT.
SAI BABA

Buhari should stop saying all that. All those things existed and his party politised it. Its a shame for him to complain to another president. Under u china snubbed nigeria, jp morgan delist nigeria, nigerian players were denied visa, nigerian economy has crashed with 100 wasted days. Keep deceiving nigeria.

Mr president you have to evaluate your activities and public speeches in the light of what is really important for the nation

You must master your thinking rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on the nation.

Try to organize your thinking to achieve balance, harmony, peace and progress for the nation, not causing divisions as we have seen in your early days in office. Words like 97%-5% and many more is not morally okay to comes out from a president mouth. Well, really and truly age is not wisdom, if it were to be you would be wiser than OBAMA which is the reverse in this case. Go back and learn from him.

Mr president taking action without thinking is the cause of every failure.

Mr president sir, if you improve the quality of your thinking, you improve the quality of your life and the nation.

I'm not a wailer and I'm not a supporter!!!