President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his regret that despite his shoot-at-sight order on non-State actors bearing AK-47, smuggling of arms and other contraband still thrives in the country.
The President, who stated this on Friday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, during the 6th regular meeting with the Presidential Economic Advisory Council, (PEAC), led by Prof. Doyin Salami, said that people are merciless towards the nation.
According to a statement issued by the President’s Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity), Femi Adesina, the President decried the situation in which some unscrupulous people tried to undermine every policy of the government, irrespective of the good it was meant to achieve for the country.
President Buhari assured that his administration will focus on the greater development of irrigation facilities in the country, and encourage more people into agriculture.
He said agriculture was a good way for the country to overcome economic challenges confronting it, stressing: We need to go back to the land. Technology is doing away with petroleum, but we are lucky we have other resources; Gas, vast arable land, which we are not using enough.
