INTERVIEW: Why Nigeria may not meet SDGs by 2030 — Health Expert
Bamidele Omotola is a public health expert and development consultant. In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES’ Nike Adebowale, he talks about the Sustainable Development Goals and the efforts required if Nigeria is to meet the 17 goals by 2030.: From my own perception, we may not achieve the Sustainable Development Goals .
We have a national population policy four children per family. Unfortunately, one of our senators recently said he had 27 children and still counting but we laughed and clapped for him. What are the status of those children? What kind of provision has he kept in place for those children, not to talk of his wives?
We know what to do but we are not doing it. Mind you, the SDGs are global targets, so how much of those global targets align with Nigeria’s target? We just developed the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan by 2017 while the SDG has been on since 2016. The discussion started from 2012 yet when we were doing ERGP we didn’t factor in the SDGs except we now begin to realign the ERGP into the SDGs. Remember, the SDG is about leaving no one behind, whether a child or an adult.
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