President Buhari has confirmed that his administration is currently engaging Niger Delta militants in talks.
The president revealed on Thursday that the government is talking
with the militants in order to end the spate of violence being
experienced in the region.
He said the talks are being done through oil companies and
law-enforcement agencies and are meant a to find a lasting solution to
insecurity in the region.
According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media
and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President spoke while granting farewell
audience to the outgoing Ambassador of Germany to Nigeria, Mr. Michael
Zinner, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Buhari also told his guest that the Federal Government is studying
the instruments of the Amnesty Programme inherited from the previous
administration with a view to carrying out commitments made that were
undelivered.
“We understand their feelings. We are studying the instruments.
We have to secure the environment, otherwise investment will not come.
We will do our best for the country,” the President was quoted as saying.
Buhari thanked the German government for its continuing support to
Nigeria in the efforts to tackle insecurity and the ongoing
rehabilitation and resettlement of displaced citizens in crisis areas in
the North-Eastern parts of the country.
He also thanked Nigeria’s neighbours for their firm and unflinching support in the war against terror.
The outgoing German Ambassador noted that bilateral relations between Nigeria and Germany “had improved very much in the last 12 months of this administration.”
He expressed the readiness of Germany to assist Nigeria in the
rehabilitation process in the North East to help displaced persons
return to their villages. He also expressed the eagerness of German
businesses to invest in the country, now that “conditions for investment
have been put in place”.
The German Ambassador reiterated the standing invitation of Chancellor Angela Merkel to Buhari to visit Germany.
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