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By Nasir Kura
President Muhammadu Buhari has commended Nigerians in Poland for their resilience over open discriminations which has helped the two countries to maintain good relationships.
Speaking at an interactive session with Nigerians at the Kraków, the President said he was impressed that they were able to maintain good relationships with their host communities despite cases of hostilities and racial discriminations.
The President said he would no complain on the myriad of problems facing the country as a result of corruption and mismanagement of resources in the past 16 years, stressing that he would face the challenges head on.
“We inherited so many problems, actually l have said l will not complain because l asked for it. I tried to become President three times and l lost , but l was lucky the fourth time, l became one, so l can’t complain. Who asked me to do it again?
“Three times l ended up in the Supreme Court. The third time, l said God dey and the fourth time, God and technology, using the Permanent Voters Card and the Card Readers, they couldn’t rig the elections , so l won. You may not be satisfied with my answers, but l will be very sincere with you, as l keep trying to do with all our people where ever they are,” he said.
The President said security is the present administration’s number one priority because of the understanding that investments drive would be useless if the society is secured.
“You have to secure our country or even the institutions , or environment to manage it properly. If they are not secured, you are wasting your time. So, security has always been our number one priority.
“Those in the North East will tell you that before we came, the so called Boko Haram used to hold about 17 local government, now, physically , they are not holding any local government, so they have resulted to real Gorilla tactics of hit and run.
“They mobilize, hit targets and then disappear again because they know the area more than the Soldiers that are defending them. Our Soldiers, are from Port Harcourt, Lagos, Sokoto, but they are locally there and know the terrain more than the soldiers,” he said.
Also speaking, the Nigerian Ambassador to Poland, Mr. Eric Adagogo Bell-Gam, said Nigerians in Poland were stable professionally and have what they are doing in that country.
He said there are quit a large number of Nigerians studying in Poland because of the relative cheap nature and quality of their educational system comparable to other parts of the world.
