The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has blamed failure of the immediate past government to provide equipment and supplies to the military for the spread of Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East

He made the statement on Thursday at the graduation of Cadets of 63rd Regular Course of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna.

Osinbajo, who was the special guest at the graduation, said that the failure resulted to the death of over 20, 000 people with over two million displaced and more than 75, 000 children orphaned.

He expressed regret that several billions of dollars meant for procurement of arms and ammunition to prosecute the war were cornered by few persons.

“This has left the region with one of the worst humanitarian crisis,” he added.

The VP commended the military for defeating the terrorists and for the sacrifices it made to defend the nation.

‪He said that the fastest way for Nigeria to get out of the current recession was for militant groups in the Niger Delta to stop bombing oil pipelines.

He said that the activities of the militants had adversely affected crude oil output which had dropped from 2.2 million barrels per day to below 1 million barrels per day.

Osinbajo said the destruction had also affected the revenue accruing to the country by 60 per cent.

While comparing the 2008/2009 recession in United States with Nigeria’s, the VP said Nigeria’s recession was caused by massive corruption, lack of saving and destruction of oil pipelines.

‪The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 133 cadets, including 17 female cadets, were for the first time awarded first degree certificates in various discipline at the occasion.

One hundred and twenty seven (127) cadets were awarded master’s degree while 14 cadets bagged doctorate degree.

Three prominent Nigerians, Grace Alele-Willaims, former Vice Chancellor, University of Benin; Paul Tarfa, ex-military administrator of Old Oyo State and business mongul, Innocent Chukwuma, were conferred with honorary doctorate degrees.

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

BeeBeeOoh:


https://www.newtelegraphonline.com/jonathan-caused-bharam-spread-osinbajo/

cindyrocks:
How many equipment has Buhari provided so far?

peterdrury:
Who placed a curse on Nigeria?

patriotic9jaboy:
Useless speech from a mere commissioner. If GEJ had held on to power and threw you and bubu in jail after annulling the election, you people will blame yourselves for contesting in the first place. Clueless government

omololu2020:
am sure no one in your family will ever get to the position he is,none of your family member can become a local council chairman not to talk of a commissioner

omololu2020:
am sure no one in your family will ever get to the position he is,none of your family member can become a local council chairman not to talk of a commissioner

Attack/Defend the message not the defender. Wrt your post, what makes you think his family has not produced someone in higher authority than the commisioner VP or you think everyone on NL is a non-entity as you

BeeBeeOoh:


https://www.newtelegraphonline.com/jonathan-caused-bharam-spread-osinbajo/

patriotic9jaboy:





I don't need their useless position. Not everyone will be president or VP before contributing to humanity. What is the essence of their presidency when the cost of living has skyrocketed and plenty hunger in the land due to their evil economic policies of banning forex for consumer goods and releasing the same forex for religious pilgrimage? Is it not better to resign than blame GEJ for everything? Probably you're still been fed by your parents bence the reason for this baseless defense. When you grow up and start earning money, you will realize how bad government policies affects standard of living. Keep supporting them until a sachet of pure water becomes 50 naira

VampireeM:



Attack/Defend the message not the defender. Wrt your post, what makes you think his family has not produced someone in higher authority than the commisioner VP or you think everyone on NL is a non-entity as you

omololu2020:
when you want to criticize, then criticise them constructively,not to start calling the vice president of the federal republic of Nigeria a mere commissioner.
You feel everyone cant become a president or vice president yet you guys keep voting people like buhari and gej Una never see anything