DOGARA SAYS TACKLING RECESSION REQUIRES COLLECTIVE EFFORT

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has said that all hands must be on desk in other scale through and fight the economic dwindling facing the nation, He made the statement on Saturday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, at a lecture organised as part of programmes for the 75th Birthday celebration of Chief Alani Bankole, father of former Speaker of the house, Dimeji Bankole.

Yakubu stressed the call, that its not novel in terms of the challenges facing the nation, though many civilised countries went through the ugly trend. He also added that men and women in such countries worked on oneness and formidable wars against the challenges at such critical periods and surmounted them to attain greater heights.

The speaker commended the Federal Government for the measures it had continued to take in ensuring that Nigeria came out of the current recession.

He lauded the call by the Governors’ Forum for a declaration of a state of emergency on the economic situation, adding that the National Assembly would come up with its position as soon as it reconvened.

Dogara stressed the need for Nigerians to support the government and be united in tackling the challenges to fast-track the process of economic recovery.

He said;

The challenges are not novel because a lot of countries have passed through them. It is always men and women of those generations that have stood up and solved the problems. It is our collective responsibility to combat our challenges and I thank God that there is a rallying call from the governors for a national emergency.

The Guest Lecturer at the event, former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, expressed that after 2015 election, the country has been experiencing more division than other years.

Musdapher, who lamented that the emergence of various agitators across the country, that the nation could not afford the cost of another “genocidal implosion’’ he added.

He spoke on the theme “The Question of Nigerian Unity.”

NAN