Nigeria At 65: Country’s Inability To Stand On Her Own Shameful – Delta Monarch

The Asagba of Asaba, His Royal Majesty, Prof Epiphany Azinge, has described arsenic shameful the inability of Nigeria to basal connected her own, 65 years aft independence, adjacent with the abundant resources astatine the nation’s disposal.

He expressed the disgust Monday portion playing big to the manager general/chief enforcement serviceman of the Nigerian Institute of Trypanosomiasis Research (NITR), Dr. Joachim Ajakaiye, who visited him, describing Nigeria arsenic a shameless country.

While saying the state was lone going circular a ellipse successful the sanction of making progress, the fiery Monarch wondered wherefore an Institute established successful 1947 would inactive beryllium struggling to eradicate stream blindness and sleeping sickness, implicit the past 78 years, expressing the aforesaid interest astir malaria, which had continued to assertion lives.

He noted that the state had lone recorded immoderate level of occurrence successful the eradication of immoderate diseases with the assistance of overseas donors but expressed disappointment successful the inability of Nigeria to code immoderate basal wellness challenges facing the citizens.

“Mr DG, determination ever comes a clip erstwhile a person indispensable basal up and amusement leadership, show enactment and marque a difference. I judge that clip has come, nether your watch, to basal up and marque a difference. You tin tally distant with the issues astir your mandate and marque that difference.

“There’s enactment to beryllium done. Is it due to the fact that the Bill Gate Foundation, amongst others, has not veered into this? The 1 they’ve done it’s arsenic if they’re achieving a batch of occurrence connected that. I ever archer this country, we are a shameless nation.

“The wealth we fritter away; the wealth we lavish done nebulous ways, corruption, amongst others, is overmuch much than what Bill Gate is bringing to Nigeria. Why indispensable we trust connected donors to code immoderate of our basal issues? We are affluent capable some successful quality and earthy resources; much than capable to instrumentality attraction of our challenges. Mr DG, this is the clip for america to instrumentality the bull by the horn.

“For me, from 1947 till date, we shouldn’t beryllium talking astir eradication, we should beryllium mopping up successful areas wherever you inactive person issues. We should beryllium talking astir full elimination astatine this constituent successful time, astir 80 years after. That is what it should be.

“That’s wherefore successful the developed world, wherever they cognize they person ailments they onslaught them frontally. U.S and Europe, they are not sleeping implicit cancer. At immoderate constituent successful clip you spot them investing successful research.

“I’m happy, though, that thing is coming up successful Delta, peculiarly astatine Dennis Osadebay University, Asaba; we privation to spot that arsenic a veritable instrumentality for addressing this contented and vigorously too, hopefully to marque a crook astir of the full matter. Having said that, I privation to invited you. I judge I person sufficiently challenged you; I person sufficiently provoked your thoughts. There is truly enactment to beryllium done.

“More often successful Nigeria, what we glamorise is the rubric of office, we don’t look the challenges of the office. We are not students of past due to the fact that clip volition ever alert past, the adjacent happening you volition inquire yourself is “what person I been capable to execute connected the saddle? If you situation yourself of what you are susceptible of achieving connected the saddle, past that volition propel, motivate, reinvigorate and energise you to execute the champion you can, not for yourself, but for the country” the Asagba stated.

Earlier, the DG/CEO of NITR, Dr. Joachim Ajakaiye, said NITR’s mandate was to make due technologies and employment probe tools and processes towards the elimination of African Trypanosomiasis (AT), onchocerciasis and their vectors – tsetse and achromatic flies.

The DG told the Monarch that the Institute had successful the past carried retired extended power involution of AT successful the 3 senatorial districts of Delta State, successful collaboration with immoderate captious stakeholders, and expressed assurance that, if sustained, the collaboration would importantly payment the agrarian communities, the authorities and its contiguous neighbours by improving aboriginal diagnosis, reducing healthcare costs and creating jobs.

He disclosed that the State Ministry of Science and Technology had agreed to spouse with the Institute for the constitution of its projected Diagnostic Centre astatine the Dennis Osadebay University, Asaba, assuring that the Institute would afloat instrumentality complaint of the construction, equipping and staffing of the Centre.

NITR office is successful Kaduna, and has zonal offices successful the six geo-political zones. The South South zonal bureau is successful Asaba.