Osinbajo Calls for Implementation of Economic Plans

Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo

The Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), has called for effective implementation of economic planning to enable the country to make phenomenal progress and avoid disaster.

He encouraged grandaunts to pay more attention to the national development plan 2021-2025, noting that the plan was an attempt to chart a path for the future.

Osinbajo, who spoke as Special Guest of Honour at the grand finale of the 45th convocation of OAU, said the rising spate of insecurity is a challenge for the government to be smarter in securing the country.

He said: “The insecurity problem that we are experiencing, the rise of terrorism in some part of the country, the access to illegal weaponry by non-state actors tells us that we must be smarter in policing the country using smart drones and surveillance equipment.

“The politicisation of means of the purchase of weapons tells us that we must manufacture our arms. Already, a Nigerian company led by Profex is manufacturing Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC’s) and exporting them to several African countries.

“Other companies and government-owned DICON are manufacturing different types of ammunition. Yes, the challenges are much but the means to resolve it and the elements are here already. Young Nigerians are rising to the challenges facing the country.

“It is effective economic planning and more effective implementation that could help us to avoid a disaster and make phenomenal progress. And so, our National Development Plan 2021-2025, is an attempt to chart a path for the future. The future belongs far more to you grandaunts, so you need to pay more attention to it.”

In his speech, the Vice-Chancellor of OAU, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, congratulated the grandaunts and old students who have been supporting the university.

He expressed sympathy with the family of late Timothy Adegoke, a student of the Executive Master in Business Administration (MBA) programme whose corpse was found some days after he was declared missing.

He said: “The university sympathises with the family recognising also the tenacity and doggedness of the late Adegoke’s wife, which assisted in no small measures, in unraveling the circumstances of her husband’s movement in Ile-Ife. The university administration is working closely with the law enforcement agents to unravel the circumstances leading to the death of Adegoke.”