Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, has reaffirmed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s commitment to tackling the country’s growing security challenges, assuring Nigerians that lasting solutions are underway.

Speaking on Sunday at a youth-focused event hosted by the National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja, Abbas said the current administration is determined to restore peace and stability across the country.

“President Tinubu is fully committed to ending insecurity. His administration is working tirelessly to ensure that no Nigerian will have to live in fear,” the Speaker stated.

His remarks come amid rising concerns over renewed incidents of bandit attacks, kidnappings, and a resurgence of terrorism in parts of the country.

Abbas urged citizens to remain hopeful and supportive, stressing that the federal government is deploying strategic interventions to address the crisis and strengthen national security infrastructure.

“There’s no country in the world that can achieve any meaningful progress without adequate security.

“The president and the national assembly, I’m sure if you observe, have worked very hard to put non-kinetic measures in place to improve security around the country.

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“Like my own state (Kaduna), just two weeks ago, the UK ambassador to Nigeria gave my governor (senator Uba Sani) an award for the improved security within the state.

“I believe within the next two years, and certainly the next four years of this administration, God willing, we will no longer be talking about insecurity because the government will do whatever is necessary to ensure that we create — more than any other thing — the enabling environment that will mitigate and prevent insecurity.”

”I want to assure you that this present administration is doing its best. If you look at the historical figures in budgetary provisions particularly for education and for health, you will see that there has been a reasonable appreciation of the figures that we have recorded in the last two budgets.

“One thing I want you to go home with is that Mr president and the national assembly have been able to cross a major hurdle that has been bedevilling our budgets. And what is that? Paucity of revenue. If you remember, the 2025 budget was increased significantly. But even with that, we are not where we ought to be.

”But the good news today is that both the national assembly and Mr president have come up with a revolutionary initiative that, within the next one to two years, we will substantially increase the revenue profile of Nigeria several-fold.

“And that is the tax reform initiative brought by Mr president. Once it comes into effect, I sincerely believe that Nigeria’s budget will improve at a minimum by five times what we have today. And that will be the time when we will say we can look at sector by sector, agency by agency, to give them what they require.

“But as of now, the revenue we have is simply inadequate to satisfy any agency. And that is why we have what is called the envelope system — to make do with whatever is given to you.

“But I assure you that, with Mr president in the driver’s seat, that era will soon come to pass. That will be the time we can provide for each agency what they actually require, and that will be the time we can start talking about what the international standard is, what they are supposed to get as against what they are getting today?”