Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday, admitted that
millions of Nigerians are living below the poverty line.
Osinbajo lamented that the COVID-19 pandemic had further
worsened the unemployment and poverty rate in the country.
The Vice President disclosed this after several sessions at
the two-day retreat, which reviewed the challenges of the relationship and
interdependence between the executive and legislative arms of government.
He, however, urged the executive and legislatures to work
together in addressing the challenges confronting Nigerians.
A statement by his spokesman, Laolu
Akande quoted Osinbajo as saying: “Every generation of leadership must
understand context. Law itself must be interpreted and implemented in context.
What is the reality of the context that we operate in today?
“We all know, our nation has millions of extremely poor people, the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened unemployment and poverty.
“We have huge deficits in infrastructure, many children are
out of school. If that is our context, we will be callous and irresponsible if
we don’t come together, work together to sort out these grave life threatening
problems our people have to confront every day. The dogmatic emphasis on
procedural niceties is a luxury we cannot afford.”
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