Foreign
Affairs Minister, Mr Geofery Onyeama, has reaffirmed Federal Government’s
determination to lift Nigeria’s masses from the poverty level the president
administration
met them on assumption of office in 2015.
Onyeama gave
the assurance in an interview on Saturday shortly after inaugurating an
Ecological Fund project at Federal College of Education, Eha-Amufu in Enugu
State. He blamed the current economic challenges and poverty in the country on
lost opportunities orchestrated by bad governance over the years.
He, however,
expressed optimism that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration would right
the wrongs, saying that the government had redirected the nation on the path of
sustainable development. The minister stated that the government was on course
to rewrite the nation’s history According to him, a lot of opportunities have
been missed due to bad governance but the current administration is determined
to turn things around for good.
“What I see when I go around our country brings
tears to my eyes because there is no justification why we should be where we
are today,” he said. Onyeama said that it was totally unacceptable that most
Nigerians lived in poverty while there were abundant resources to transform the
country. He admitted that a lot needed to be done to turn the tide, and said
that the various reform programmes of the administration were targeted at
exiting the citizens from poverty realm.
“I thank God for the resilience of our
people under harsh conditions; that determination is always there and very
soon, we shall start to see the benefits of government initiatives.”
The
minister said that the Federal Government was well aware of the challenges the
current situation posed on the youths, who made up a large group in the
population. He said that the government had strategically embarked on
aggressive infrastructural development in rural areas to make life attractive
for the young ones and stem rural-urban migration.
He called on Nigerians to keep
faith with the Buhari administration, which he said, had the blueprint for
sustainable economic growth. The minister inaugurated 14 culverts, drainages
and asphalting of four kilometres internal roads undertaken by the Federal
Government in the institution.
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