President Muhammadu
Buhari has informed the nation that the challenges faced by the nation is
higher than our national income.
He said this is a
major challenge that must be overcome as a nation if we are to make progress.
The President added
that although the government has been challenged on all fronts from security,
absence of critical infrastructure, poverty to unemployment, the essence of the
Next Level Agenda is to consolidate on the achievements of the last four.
He added that among
many challenges governments all over the world face, funding is the major one
because it is the life wire of governance, without which, government cannot
deliver.
President Buhari
stated this yesterday at the National policy and development summit held in
Abuja.
The President was
represented by the Permanent Secretary, office of the Secretary to the
Government the Federation, Mr. Andrew David.
He said that the
summit will not only afford us the opportunity to interrogate the strategies adopted
by the government to actualize the next level agenda to overcome our national
challenges but also to interrogate the prospects and anticipated challenges
with the intention to proffer solutions.
He said, “Though the
government has been challenged on all fronts – from security, absence of
critical infrastructure, poverty to unemployment. The essence of the Next Level
Agenda is to consolidate on the achievements of the last four.
“Therefore the
summit will not only afford us the opportunity to interrogate the strategies
adopted by our government to actualize the next level agenda to overcome our
national challenges but also to interrogate the prospects and anticipated
challenges with the intention to proffer solutions.
“As we all know,
among many challenges governments all over the world face, funding is the major
one because it is the life wire of governance. Without it, government cannot
deliver.
“After funding,
comes strategies and human resource needed to succeed. The strategies and human
resource needed for our government to succeed are all there. Funding is always
the challenge and corruption. This explains the governance strategy of our
government that combines anticorruption and critical interventions delivery.
“Another challenge
is the absorptive capacity of our national economy to support our developmental
needs and plan at the movement. On a balance, our national challenges are more
than our national income. It is a major challenge that must be overcome as a
nation if we are to make progress.
“As a government we,
are interested in solutions that will help propel Nigeria to the next level we
envisaged. As you deliberate on these issues and many more therefore, it is
hoped you would proffer solutions that would enable government to overcome these
challenges.
“Although, as a
government, we have been striving to prioritize and balance between the welfare
of Nigerians and infrastructural needs of the country. This we have been doing
through pragmatism that enable our government to simultaneously concentrate on
social investment and infrastructure provisioning.
“The Reports of the
Monthly Policy Dialogue Series is hereby acknowledged, especially the one that
dealt succinctly on funding the Next Level Agenda. The challenges and prospects
as documented are well noted. This will further enable government to tackle
funding challenges as highlighted by stakeholders at the Dialogue
“We appreciate the
contribution of Hon. Ibrahim Bapetel and his hard working team to the
governance process. Their contributions have assisted in a much significant way
to rejigging retreat for government ministers.
“The retreat now
includes training, deliverables and targets amongst others. This is one of the
major milestones the first summit that interrogated the change Agenda achieved.
“Today, as a result
of the recommendation of the summit, the opaque nature of the NNPC as noted by
the report of the first summit is being gradually overcome. We now have an NNPC
that is declaring profit and has also gone ahead to collaborate with the
National Assembly to enact the Deep Shore Act 2019 that gives us more leverage
over our oil resources. It is the first of its kind in our recent history.
“Ladies and
gentlemen, let me assure you at this juncture that the report of this commit
will not go to waste. Recommendations contained therein would be implemented to
the betterment of the hard working people of Nigeria. A lot needed to be done
to pull Nigeria and Nigerian out of poverty. This we are committed to.”
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