President Muhammadu Buhari, represented by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, at the ongoing 21st Nigerian Economic Summit (NES), therefore, said the federal government was committed to tailoring its economic policy towards bailing out the poor.
Buhari said the government was considering a type of intervention that would have long term effect on the people.
He said: “Every well meaning country in the world that I know of is accountable to its people and has one form of social welfare or the other. Over a million Nigerians die every year as a result of poverty related issue in this country.
“And if this is the case then you one needs to ask oneself if these people are not citizen of this country and if government shouldn’t have been accountable to them.”
“We shall introduce universal health care to improve on the current 6 million people enjoying the facility. Apart from the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), agriculture is the most logical anchor on which our poverty reduction intervention. We are going to focus on the small holder farmer.We will do conditional cash transfer and fulfil our promise to institute school feeding to ease the burden on the poor.”
Speaking on the collaboration between the judiciary and the executive in the fight against corruption, he said government had gotten commitment of the judiciary.
He, however, clarified that it was not every injunction granted by a judge that was influenced by graft, saying some of them were actually system induced.
He also informed that the federal government was looking at the possibility of re-enacting the Lagos state model of judicial reform.
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