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OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT

HOW BUHARI ADMINISTRATION’S ESP HELPED NIGERIA TACKLE COVID-19 CHALLENGES - OSINBAJO

*VP highlights impact of Sustainability Plan in saving jobs, sustaining livelihood, improving healthcare sector

*Calls for global action in access to vaccines for African countries in Chatham House event

Nigeria’s priorities in a post-COVID-19 world include restoring economic growth in the immediate term, building resilience in the health sector, and repositioning the economy on a sustainable footing in the medium term while saving jobs and building domestic capacity and local production in critical areas.

These were the summations of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, during a virtual Chatham House interactive session on Tuesday themed: “Priorities for Nigeria’s Post-COVID Recovery”.

During the Chatham House interaction, the Vice President discussed the challenges posed to Nigeria by the global COVID-19 pandemic and the Nigerian government’s response aimed at ensuring lasting socio-economic recovery and development.

Prof. Osinbajo highlighted the significant impact of the Buhari administration’s Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) as a crucial pivot in helping the country respond to the fallouts of the pandemic.

He explained that “the Buhari administration’s first priority was to protect people and their livelihoods in response to the fallout of the pandemic. One of the ways was to support the critical MSMEs sector through the Survival Fund scheme, a component under the ESP.”

According to the VP, “one of the specific interventions under the ESP was what we describe as the Survival Fund, which essentially was a fund to protect jobs and to ensure that during the course of the pandemic and immediately thereafter, informal workers in particular or private sector workers especially those in the informal sector, were at least able to continue to earn some wages."

Prof. Osinbajo stated that through the Survival Fund scheme, over 300,000 beneficiaries, as well as businesses have been supported during the pandemic “by providing salaries for three months for beneficiaries, which include private school teachers, artisans, road transporters, taxi cab operators, and commercial tricycle operators in the urban areas .

“We also sought to protect the most vulnerable, in particular, the urban poor who were also hard hit. What we did was to provide direct cash transfers to the urban poor, many of them who are captured in a social register. In the first phase of that, we are able to benefit about 1 million beneficiaries, and we are now in a position using the same social register to scale up the programme to about 20 million beneficiaries.”

The Vice President also highlighted the work being done by government in the areas of improving broadband connectivity and expanding the country’s national identity base, which he stated would help in developing the country’s existing social register and other pro-poor programmes under the Buhari administration’s Social Investment schemes.

Also, to stimulate production in the economy, Prof. Osinbajo noted that the Federal Government is “focused on energising existing value chain in agriculture, construction and renewable energy,” even as he highlighted the impact of the ESP’s agriculture scheme and social housing programme in improving local productivity and creating jobs.

“Our agriculture programme (under the ESP) aims at expanding productivity, creating a total of about 5 million jobs. What we have done so far is that we've been able to register and geotag about 5 million new farmers to farmland areas. The programme is also supporting smallholder farmers by linking them to extension services and low-interest input financing.

“We also have a mass housing programme which is designed to deliver affordable homes through direct intervention in the housing construction sector aimed at creating 1.8 million jobs together with the construction of 300,000 homes in the first phase. At the moment, the programme is ongoing in 12 states which will be expanded to all of the states in the federation.”

The Vice President further explained that the ESP was developed as a short-term strategy to address the two-fold challenge posed by the pandemic: to both public health and the national economy.

For instance, in the health sector, Prof. Osinbajo stated that a critical area for government in the fallout of the pandemic “is in doing far more with our research institutions and investing far more in these institutions.”

He said, “since February 2020 (when Nigeria confirmed its first COVID-19 case), we have significantly ramped up our testing and case management capacity. We have activated from about five molecular laboratories to about 120, most of them public laboratories.

“We have expanded the footprint of our sovereign public health response capacity, especially at the sub-national level, and in areas where such capabilities didn’t exist before.


Prof. Osinbajo further said government was also focused on promoting a culture of preparedness across all levels of the country’s health care system by building resilience in the health sector.

“Going forward," he said "we are committed to building on the exemplary dedication of our health workers and strengthening the capacity of our health systems to withstand shocks created by infectious diseases and pandemics such as we are experiencing.

“One reason why we've been able to manage this pandemic better than expected is that we did have some existing public sector infrastructure to work with, the Ebola outbreak in 2014, our ongoing battles with Lassa fever, our successes with polio eradication all helped us to tighten our pandemic contingency plans, strengthen our emergency coordination and surveillance capacity and also enhance investments in public health laboratories.”

The Vice President highlighted the government’s efforts through the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in tackling the pandemic, adding that it also prioritized the strengthening of the country’s public health infrastructure

“While it is true that in many respects, our hospital infrastructure still lags behind in standards, especially when compared with richer countries of the world, we've been able to draw on the resilience and adaptability of our tried and tested community health system,” he noted.

The VP also called for global action in ensuring access to vaccines, especially in poorer countries, noting that, “there are justifiable concerns, in my view, about the certainty of fair and equitable access to vaccines, as well as the likelihood that poorer countries would be left behind if the distribution of these vaccines is determined by the nationalistic sentiments.”

“As part of our recovery efforts, Nigeria has taken delivery of about 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines under the international COVAX scheme and we have commenced vaccination of our people. This year, we will receive 84 million doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine under that same scheme, which would be enough to vaccinate about 20 per cent of our population.”

According to the VP, “in our globalised environment, national self-interest is insufficient to address the challenge of a global pandemic, Indeed, in a world that is interconnected as ours, any plan other than a global plan is bound to be counter-productive.”

The Vice President further stated that a policy imperative of the Buhari administration is also hinged on encouraging value addition in every sector of the economy, especially to consolidate areas where the country had comparative advantage.

The live event was chaired by a senior official of Chatham House; Dr. Renata Sevan.

Laolu Akande
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity
Office of the Vice President
23rd March 2021

I don't want the vaccine in my neighborhood.

Is it not too much those who may need it becausd i know we do t need it here

Protecting Nigerians indeed. Even if it's 200 million vacine, People like me won't even take it.

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Vice puppet.

Vaccine dey come vaccine dey come who want take am is better una take am go vaccinate pig

Sorry isn't this the one a certain country rejected for a better one?

Using the unreal pandemic to cash out. Anyways, they should keep all that vaccines to themselves. As we did not receive Palliatives, covid-19 intervention funds and loans, so also they should acquire and reserve the vaccine for those whom they gave Palliatives and Covid-19 intervention loans and funds. Nansense an ingredient of failed state.

It 's for those who will submit themselves for the jab.

That's why Nigeria will be destroyed. So you don't have any good plans for your people... Only to slave for the West?

Did we beg you for vaccine?

Nigeria recorded one of the lowest mortality rates of this plandemic- a little over 1 percent.What Nigerians need sorely now is not vaccines but food, shelter,and economic possibilities,not necessarily jobs.Nigerians have mastered the skill and art of creating jobs for themselves.

Prince001:


What's wonderful there? Na the rejected vaccine in Europe those Bastards leaders are ordering for cos at moment here they've stopped administered that it cos of some issues!! which way my people?

The vaccine was not rejected. Some countries like France, German e.t.c started vaccinating thier citizens with the vaccine. But halted it when the issue of suspected blood clotting came up. Now they have started administering the vaccine after several investigation was done.

I personally dont have confidence in the vaccine. because it was rolled out in a haste, to compete with Russian Sputnik Vaccine.

I have more confidence in the Chinese vaccine. The Chinese took thier time to produce the vaccine and they carried everyone (EU, WHO e.t.c) along.

DesChyko:
For what?
These people are serious ni o.
After a year of not taking COVID-19 serious without consequence and now that even the countries who suffered severely are recovering nicely, this FG is importing vaccines for who?

Don't mind the idiots. They have collected bribes and have agreed with the rest of the world to run down their economy. FOOLS

I will still commend the effort of Vice President yemi Osinbajo who is known for his proactive-ness had a meeting with Pfizer on the 9th of August, 2020 following an intensive push by VP Osinbajo, he told the representatives of pfizer that Nigeria should be made a priority when covid19 vaccine is ready for distribution.

other African countries like South Africa and Ghana received
1 million and 600,000 doses of the covid19 vaccines respectively, Nigeria is obviously prioritised as we received 4 million doses of the vaccine.

Nice one.... good news...

Good. They like covid rice but fear covid vaccine.
The politicians and kings that hoarded rice and other palliative back then will not come out now to hoard the vaccines o. Even them dey fear to take the thing.

planetx:
Puppets all dancing to the same music of a global reset using the plandemic. The only one that refused to go along was the Tanzanian guy and he was quickly eliminated.

Exactly.

You sabi wetin dey

Why didn't the idiots hide the fvcking vaccines in warehouses?





We got more serious issues to address in this cursed country, not this Covid-19 sh!t!

Emmy3:
As for me and my family; we are not taking any vaccine.
That vaccine isn't for us, we have much more troubling diseases.
German measles (rubella), Lassa, Ebola, malaria....

You must take it o!

Soon, they will make it mandatory.

Hope you are aware of that?

CzarChris:
Are these people mad? Other countries are rejecting that vaccine even the country that produced it has halted it's use, South Africa is returning it's own doses and are waiting for Pfizer's vaccine and you are proud to open your mouth in the international community to say you are expecting 84million doses of are rejected vaccine. This country is an unbelievable joke. Who we offend for this country sef?

You are who we offend for this country......ignorant noise makers like you. Which country is rejecting which vaccine? Ode buruku....

hahahaha, O my God, this comment made my day.

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Duplexxx:
Vaccine dey come vaccine dey come who want take am is better una take am go vaccinate pig

It 's for those who will submit themselves for the jab.

Nigerians and ignorance hmmm. Kudos to the VP for his relentless efforts to ensure we get the vaccines. 84million doses will surely go a long way and it only means high activity in the market to protect Nigerians.

TheRareGem1:
I will still commend the effort of Vice President yemi Osinbajo who is known for his proactive-ness had a meeting with Pfizer on the 9th of August, 2020 following an intensive push by VP Osinbajo, he told the representatives of pfizer that Nigeria should be made a priority when covid19 vaccine is ready for distribution.

other African countries like South Africa and Ghana received
1 million and 600,000 doses of the covid19 vaccines respectively, Nigeria is obviously prioritised as we received 4 million doses of the vaccine.

Zombie!!
Will u just shut up?
All u know how to do is follow sheepishly with a blind fold and ear muffs

It is our choice... so far... to take or not take the vaccine. Many will take it because they say we should take it. To those with independent minds... deciding if to take it.... ask yourself why .... then to find the answer. Most likely... people take a vaccine to prevent them from becoming sick with that particular strain of virus. Have you heard or read anywhere any of the experts say the vaccine will prevent you from being sick with COVID-19?
The strain of virus the vaccines were intended to fight have long mutated.... for years the experts were preaching each year you must take a flu shot because the virus mutates and last gear flu shot will not work on this year's mutated virus..... but suddenly this shot will work on all mutations? We need to really ask ourselves... why are we taking the shots?
Meanwhile... 84 million flu shots... says the salesman for Astra Zeneca.... and we believe it's free.... money that could be better spent on treating malaria.

Europe is rejecting Asrazeneca
The US said the company is withholding data
It's been said to cause blood thinning and other side effect. South Africa refused to use theirs and sold it to other African nations

Use wisdom to decide if to take it or not

slawormiir:
Damnnn niggarrrr
Isoright.......

This pussy ass niggarr called vp will be talking and acting like a star boy...whereas he is just a mere house boy in aso rock

The only star boy we know is wizkid and the weeknd...


South Africa sold theirs because the vaccine nor dey treat their own variant abi type of Corona viruse

Please let's be reasonable for once did you take in depth look at the statistics? It was majority of whites that had adverse effects, while the blacks had least effects.

The south Africa Dynamics is beyond what is been reported.... They are also pressured by China to increase the volume of sinovac that is very very poor in terms of patronage globally due to the poor effectiveness.

Please do research first before vomiting recycled news

Jhayphil:
Nigerians and ignorance hmmm. Kudos to the VP for his relentless efforts to ensure we get the vaccines. 84million doses will surely go a long way and it only means high activity in the market to protect Nigerians.

Take comments like this at face value. There is an agenda going on, use your discernment and do your own research. Why are people that cannot provide ordinary palliatives all of a sudden so efficiently ready to inject 200 million Nigerians with an experimental gene therapy which is what this so called vaccine really is.

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Why wouldnt they receive what many countries are rejecting.
Dumping ground as usual.

He'll know I'm not taking the shit

Is he now the National Chief Medical Officer.