Detail of Osinbajo’s meeting with returning Governors, Governors-elect emerges
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has revealed what the President Muhammadu Buhari government would be doing in the next four years.
He added, “It is a great honour to be here at this induction of the freshly elected Governors of States. First, please accept my heartfelt congratulations on your election victories. I reiterate that my congratulations are heartfelt, even to the PDP governors who are present here and all the governors from other parties.
“Large numbers are unable to afford good healthcare and malnutrition remains a major problem. Children in many of our States run the risk of being permanently mentally stunted because they are malnourished. Illiteracy is still significantly high and the number of out of school children is an embarrassment.
“The burdens of the citizens of our States, the pains and deprivations of their poverty is what they hope would be alleviated by electing us. No matter how we slice it, we are responsible for the quality of lives and livelihoods of the millions who live within our States and National borders. “We must confront the problem, not merely by hoping that the Federal Government can do more, because that may not necessarily offer much hope. Already, our deficit is close to N2trillion, while debt service to revenue is somewhere in the order of 54%.
“How about Agriculture? Each State must leverage its most advantageous agricultural produce, and working with the Federal government’s initiatives in agricultural credit and the recently launched Green Imperative, with the Brazilian Government, it is possible for States to generate significant revenues from agriculture. After all, a lot of the relatively mind-boggling achievements of the regions in our history were without oil money, but mainly revenues from agriculture and taxes.
“Your Excellencies, these principles remain the President’s firm commitments to the States. In the next four years, Mr. President has made it clear that we will be focusing our attention on human capital development and physical infrastructure. We will be working with the States on education, especially the education of girls, and we have begun some deep diving in this respect with our HDI work at the National Economic Council.
“In addition, our Social Investment Programmes have been effective in almost all States of the Federation. All States of the Federation have cooperated with the Federal Government in implementing these schemes. “We have recorded improvements in business registration processes, filing of taxes, imports and exports of good, visa applications, ports operations, and so on, by focusing on streamlining existing processes and introducing automation. In all of these, we have had the active collaboration of all the States of the Federation. In some cases, some States have gone even beyond what we agreed to sharpen and speed up their own processes, which have contributed to the ease of doing business.
“The PIDF is expected to mobilize from governments, the private sector, and development partners, and all the funding is directed at implementing these projects. This has happened with the active support of the States. With the support of the States, we contributed US$650 million in seed funding to PIDF in 2018.
“At our discussions at NEC, we have recommended more effective collaboration with State governments; a major plank in that collaboration is Community Policing. This involves more practical collaboration between the citizens, civic groups, traditional institutions and the Police.
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