He recalled the arms purchase scandal “where a huge amount of money was spent but unfortunately it went into private pockets’’.
He recounted that fake Armoured Personnel Carriers and fake bullet proof vests were purchased for soldiers thus endangering the lives of anti- terrorism combatants.
“Unless we seriously fight corruption through a systematic rebirth of our public system, the future of the country is in grave danger,’’ Osinbajo said.
He said the administration had a robust plan to uplift education standards through the recruitment of 500,000 additional graduate teachers to serve in the rural areas, development of materials for teacher education and focus on science, engineering, technology and mathematics education.
He said that Buhari had put together an asset recovery team, adding that looted assets and funds recovered would be returned to the federation account.
The vice president also announced that all idle mining licences issued by the past administrations were being mopped up, while the government was reviewing the contract signed between the CBN and Systemspec on remittances made into the Treasury Single Account.
However, Sanusi, a VGC resident, advised the government to either devalue the currency or stop the confusion between the official and parallel market exchange rates.
He said that allowing an official rate at N197 per dollar while the parallel market sold for over N300 was “distractive’’.
“Naira is already devalued and government not accepting it is postponing the evil day,’’ Sanusi said.
The Chairman of the VGC Residents Association, Mr Olusegun Ladega, in an address requested Osinbajo to intervene in the flooding of the estate caused by the non-provision of ancillary drainage on the Lekki-Epe Expressway by the Lagos State Government.
Also, Dr (Mrs) Tochi Okwor, raised concerns about the high rate of communicable diseases, such as TB and HIV and AIDS, which she said might reach unacceptable proportion if nothing was done.
She also advised the federal government to remove the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) from the Health Ministry and make it an independent organisation to enable the NCDC play its role effectively
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