Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has said that the problem of Nigeria is
poor management of resources in the past caused by grand corruption.
In a
statement released on Monday, December 10, 2018, by his senior special
assistant on media and publicity, Laolu Akande, the vice president said those
who have made away with the nation's resources should be made to account for
them, and that, going forward, such corruption does not happen again.
While
speaking to Nigerians at a hall meeting in Berlin, Germany, Osinbajo urged Nigerians to hold leaders
accountable with regards to the nation's wealth.
He said,
"The greatest problem Nigeria has is one of grand corruption; that is the
biggest problem we have, not the problem of planning or plans; and grand
corruption is the reason why we are not moving as fast as we should in our
country.
"That
there is no country in the world that can survive if its resources are stolen
the way Nigeria's resources are stolen."
He stated
that one of the key issues President Muhammadu Buhari's administration was
dealing with in partnership with European leaders now was the repatriation of
the country's stolen assets stashed abroad, adding that the government is
working towards addressing the issue by working with its European partners.
On the issue
of unemployment, the vice president revealed that Buhari's administration is
addressing the matter from several fronts such as the employment of 500,000
graduates under the N-Power scheme, as well as through other social investment
programmes like MarketMoni and TraderMoni.
"One of
the areas we are hoping to get employment is through agriculture. What we have
done with agriculture is we have given 760,000 farmers direct loans under the Anchor
Borrowers scheme; generating more interests among farmers especially in the
North, which is where a lot of farming is going on," he said.
Osinbajo
also announced that the current administration is developing a robust
educational policy, stating that "education is the basis of all we're doing."
He also
expressed hope that an agreement will soon be reached between the federal
government and members of the Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) with
regards to the ongoing strike by lecturers across Nigeria.
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