How Nigeria can overcome challenges, by ex-EFCC chair

A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,(EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, has said that there is the need for soul searching by the leaders at all levels to address the challenges facing the nation.

She said no one could address the nation’s problems than Nigerians.

Mrs. Waziri gave the advice while fielding questions from reporters at the premises of Saint Edwards Catholic Church, Uga, in Ushongo Local Government of Benue State, where a thanksgiving reception was held in her honour by the Uga Mbakuha community.

A statement by her media office quoted the ex-EFCC chair as saying: “In view of the daunting challenges facing our nation at this moment of our history, we need to sincerely seek God’s help but it is obviously not enough for our people including our political, religious and community leaders to just troop to mosques and churches on Fridays and Sundays, we all need to do serious soul searching and that’s the point frank and selfless ideas that will bring lasting solutions can come forth.”

“ I am saying this because some of the things happening in our communities and country as a whole today are strange to us historically and culturally.

“ We are fast losing our culture of being our brother’s keeper instead we seek the fall of the next man. Do we do unto others what we want them to do unto us? We need to retrace our steps as a people and as a nation.

“We surely have to return to God but beyond that let’s all search our conscience and there we will find where we missed it at personal, household, community, state and national levels because solutions to our problems will not come from anywhere other than within our dear Nation, Nigeria”.

Earlier at the well-attended event, Waziri thanked her people for the honour and called for the deepening of the bond between the community, its neighbours and the government.

The statement added: “She said for years, she had been taken away from her place of birth in her bid to serve her fatherland, Nigeria, adding that the “values learnt during my early formation are what invariably demonstrated in my commitment to work, honesty and hard work in any assignment entrusted to me.