Vice President Yemi OsinbajoActing President Yemi Osinbajo has once again diagnosed the problem that had retarded the progress of Nigeria as being more of lack of management of the nation’s resources than the availability of same.
“The problem is not about the availability of resources, but it is the management.”
The Acting President, who spoke at the Presidential Villa when he received Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, Houston, US-based Nigerian doctor who successfully led a medical team that operated on a foetus, winning US and global acclaim for the feat, justified his postulation by wondering how the Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government is able to do more when funds are scarce than in the days when oil was selling at over $100 per barrel.
“When we were making over a $100 per barrel, we were owing oil JVC cash calls, not able to pay salaries and owing contractors. Now that we are down in earnings by 60%, we have sorted out the problem of cash calls and are able to support states to pay salaries.”
According to the Acting President, this country can be well run, adding: “we produce the best in every way, but it will take a lot of doing, by good men and women. This is what i have learnt in the past over two years here. If we do the right things, day by day, we’ll change and improve the Nigerian situation significantly.”
He expressed happiness that Nigeria has been producing the best in every way and that its citizens have been shining in various ways around the world.
“As we continue to do what is right in public service, the country is bound to reach the top, globally, as a people.
Osinbajo said: “our country continues to shine in various ways, your achievement is remakable in every sense. People are bound to wonder. It’s the kind that fables are made of. And this is from someone who is Nigerian-trained.”
Dr. Olutoye who was accompanied to the Presidential Villa by members of his family including his wife and parents had, in a rare medical feat that drew global applause, brought out a foetus from a mother-Margaret Boemer’s womb to remove a tumour from the foetus, and then restored the unborn baby to the womb successfully. The mother then continued to carry the pregnancy to term, and later on, delivered the baby safely and well. She named the baby Lynlee Hope.
Earlier, Dr. Olutoye had attributed his medical successes in the US to his Nigerian training and education up till the university.
“All we have achieved from primary to university is from Nigeria, and I believe that Nigeria will surpass what we have achieved out there.”
Dr. Olutoye is a graduate of Medicine from the then University of Ife, Ile-Ife.
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