ABUJA – The Federal Government has appointed General
Theophilus Danjuma, retd, as the Chairman of its
interventions programme aimed to assuage the effect of
poverty, deprivations and death inflicted on the people of the
North East by the notorious Islamic sect, Boko Haram.
The
Vice
President, Yemi Osinbajo, who disclosed this yesterday at
the summit organized by Northern Reawakening Forum,
NRF, in Abuja, said that streamlining all the intervention
efforts in this way will help to ensure immediate delivery of
succours to many of the problems that currently afflict the
north east.
He noted that the Federal Government has both short and
long term strategies for immediately alleviation of hardship
as well as long term plans to build infrastructure that most
affect the economic lives of the most vulnerable citizens of
Nigeria.
According to him, “Now all of the Federal Government
initiatives are now under the chairmanship of General T.Y.
Danjuma. We hope that streamlining the efforts in this way
will help to ensure immediate delivery of succours to many
of the problems that currently afflict the north east.
“We are aware that interventions are not institutions. We
have a plan of short term strategy for immediately
alleviation of hardship as well as long term plans to build
infrastructure that most affect the economic lives of the
most vulnerable citizens of our nation. But most
importantly, we will make the interventions work” he
promised.
The Vice President said further that the government is
committed to action and all the issues that affect Nigerians
in any part of the country.
He said “A close detailed analysis has been drawn for the
north east in collaboration with the affected states and
some development organizations. We have been working
and streamlining, in particular, government interventions
through the presidential initiatives in the north east victims
support group and all other initiatives” he said,
While regretting the squalid lifestyle of the people of the
north which he attributed to the mismanagement of the
resources of the government, Osibanjo said that Nigeria is a
nation of 170 million people, the sixth largest producer of oil
with over 100 varieties of solid minerals and precious
metals ; 100s of thousands of acres of arable land; the
largest economy in Africa, yet desperately poor.
For him, over 110 million are extremely poor. Maternal
mortality exceeding over 55,000 women a year and 10.4
million children out of school. A nation where, despite the
huge human and material resources, a tiny minority has
over the years stolen and squandered the common wealth.
“The 19 northern states of Nigeria, human development
indices are by far poorer than the rest of the country. The
northern states occupy 70 per cent of the landmass of the
country. They have the highest infant mortality rate, the
lowest rate of child enrolment in school, highest number of
unemployed people and of course face the challenge of
interreligious conflicts including Boko Haram terrorism.
The National Bureau of Statistics 2015 figure shows that the
poorest 10 states in Nigeria are in the north with the
exception of Ebonyi State. The northern Nigerian economic
summit in Abuja 2012, was one of the first fora to draw the
attention to some of the depressing statistics.
In his opening address, the Chairman of the Northern
Reawakening Forum, Hon. Mohammed Umara Kumalla
regretted the high scale poverty raving the Northern Nigeria,
especially the North East and the North West.
Attributing the ugly trend to scope of illiteracy in the affected
areas. Kumalla called for urgent private capital investment
in education sector in the north.
According to him.”Entrepreneurs, businessmen and other
well to do northerners must show example by investing in
education.”


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TY DANJUMA IS BOSS.

Ok na....