Osinbajo, Kagame, canvass welfare programme to tackle poverty

VICE PRESIDENT Yemi Osinbajo, Rwandan President, Paul Kagame and other stakeholders, have advocated implementation of people-oriented socio-economic programmes as part of measures to address uneven wealth distribution, rising poverty and restoration of human dignity.

According to the stakeholders, often times, solutions proffered to problems are symptomatic therapies that hardly work, thus needing a paradigm shift in terms of social inclusion programmes and poverty alleviation scheme.

Speaking at the yearly lecture and leadership symposium organized by the Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL) in Lagos at the weekend, Osinbajo said while the President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled and showed commitments to various social impact programmes, the Nigerian elites need to live up to its responsibility.

According to the nation’s number two citizen, Nigerian elites are culpable in the stealing of the commonwealth of Nigeria, a situation that has necessitated the need to recover such stolen funds for economic growth.

Osinbajo added that the present administration has unveiled several schemes to address poverty in the country and help in the redistribution of commonwealth with focus on women, education and capacity building for industrial growth.

“We need to re-organise our educational system to reflect new developments. Technology would be a driving force. We need a new tribe of people who will shun stealing of our commonwealth. The various corruption scandals have shown that corruption cuts across tribes and this has to change.