He made this comment on Tuesday at the ongoing programmed tagged The Platform.
Osinbajo, who harped on the need for Nigerians to promote their own, noted that there are many young persons from this country who have contributed intellectually to the growth of the nation.
“I tell you, it is total rubbish to say Mungo Park discovered RiverNiger. We all know that people where fishing in the River beforeMungo Park’s grandfather was born.
“This calls for the need for us to promote our own,” he said.
According to the vice president, “our business as government is to create more enabling environment for entrepreneurs to do business and create more infrastructure.
“We have to provide more jobs as more people are added to the population everyday.
“Today we are confronted with the remnants of Boko Haram with farmers/herdsmen clashes and ethno-religious conflicts,’’ he said.
Osinbajo recalled that when oil was selling for 100 to 142 dollars per barrel, the budget of Transport and Agriculture Ministries; all the ministries together got 139 billion.
“Today with oil prices between 60 and 70 dollars per barrel, the Power, Works and Housing, Agriculture and Transport Ministries got N560 billion.
“How come we can do more with less income?
“How come we are able to invest in infrastructure. How come we can do the Lagos-Kano standard rail gauge; the Second NgerBridge, with 60 per cent less income than we earned a few years ago,” he asked.
“The job of the builder is not to complain. I believe the solution is in building that Nigerian bridge.
“A bridge that will be built on the strongest materials of all and to excel in our commitment to build a new society.
“A bridge that connects us across tribes; across ethnicity; across dialects; a bridge that connects us across religion; across politics; and across even generations.
“Everyone of us can travel on this bridge. A bridge that rises from innovation and traditions and stands the troubled waters of our past.
“A bridge that can take the traffic of all our best Nigerians and creativity; and human and materials to the destination of our dream.”
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Oche barbar!
ReplyDeleteJust Krix!
History 101
ReplyDeleteSo it is now mungo park you are talking about. Business pastor
ReplyDeleteIS that supposed to be our business, can the country make money from it? Just park well
DeleteYes Sir, Preach!!
ReplyDeleteChimamanda wrote that in one of her books, our forefathers had been fishing in the River Niger, long before Mungo Park dreamt of coming to Nigeria.
Give masses lifeline, you are yarning dust!
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Who discovered river Niger? answer: Nigeria Fisherman
ReplyDeleteColumbus 'discovered' America. Mungo Park 'discovered' River Niger. David Livingstone 'discovered' Victoria waterfalls. Discovered in these contexts only means that these aforementioned men were the first Europeans to see these places and announce their existence/discovery to the world at large. It does not mean that natives were not inhabiting those places. So saying Mungo Park discovered River Niger is not rubbish when you understand the contextual meaning.
ReplyDeleteI have argued this over and over but one of my lecturers those blacklisted me.how can you tell me mungo park discovered that river?even omabala riverflows into it too and people has been fishing there since since
ReplyDeleteI will still write Mungo Park in my history exam should the question arise again lol. Our forefathers were using it but they did not know what name to put on it and where its sources ran from and where. Mungo park came along and put a name to it and we come after how many years to deny him. Mbanu.
ReplyDeleteAnd so! Park well joor.
ReplyDeleteSame way Nigeria was existing yet some present politicians don't know it was named by Flora Shaw wife of Lord Lugard and coined from Niger-area meaning a land surrounded by water. I could go on.
ReplyDeleteOga VP abeg leave it cos we like that kain discovery, it made our primary school fun in the 80s as we nicknamed ourselves after these people. Let's talk about you and your APC's discovery. Can our kids remember your tenure for any discovery or even nickname their toy after you people? Rubbish talk. Mtchewww , indi ara
our grandfathers lived by the river, they did not explore the river from its point of origin to the point it flows into the ocean and document it. that's what a discovery is and that is what mungo park did
ReplyDeleteYour heading can be misleading Stella, he was only coating a book , in his presentation at the platform .
ReplyDeleteWhat has mungo park's discovery or no discovery got to do with the dilapidating economy and gruesome massacre in the country? Mtcheew
ReplyDeleteNigerians can be silly sha, so in all the speech all you can interprete is mungo park and river Niger smh
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