I will resume search for oil along the Lake Chad Basin - Buhari

President-elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari says
he will resume vigorous search for oil along the
Chad Basin in parts of Borno State and other
parts of the North-east region once he is sworn
in as President come May 29th.
According to
KSM news, Buhari said this while receiving
Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima and
Traditional Rulers and Elders from Borno state
who came to Kaduna to pay him a
congratulatory visit on Sunday April 19th.

KSM news reports (the official news agency for
Borno governor) that Gen Buhari in his address
to the people promised to work to restore peace
in the Northeast region by according top priority
to ending the activities of Boko Haram. He
promised to work in collaboration with the
government of Chad, Cameroon and Niger to
curtail the trans border movement of Boko
Haram insurgents, cut supply of arms as well as
cut the recruitment and training of fresh
recruits.
On Agriculture, the president-elect said the
receding of Lake Chad will be addressed
through the transfer of water from the Central
African Republic to the lake to boost its
commercial activities for fishing and irrigation
farming.
He recalled that he once read a document
raising fears about receding of the Lake Chad
which he handed over to former President
Olusegun Obasanjo but now that he would be
coming as President, he will handle the matter.

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