TWENTY years ago, the British government pledged to end child poverty within a generation, choosing to centre its domestic policy on achieving equal opportunity for all its citizens. With 1.1 million children lifted out of poverty by 2010, the UK was on track towards achieving this goal although a change of government has jeopardised these aims.
Ironically, although these policies, by investing in citizens, helped create the stability and democratic politics of the West in the 20th century, in Africa, the IMF and World Bank advocated drastically cutting public services, the effects of which we are just realising today, nearly 30 years later, when advanced economies which continued to invest in their people have been able to maintain countries invested in the same largely progressive goals.
Only parliament can ensure that we start to spend on healthcare and education again, through their approval of laws and budgets which steer policy implementation in a pro-people direction, creating an inclusive economy, without which the lofty goals of peace and cohesiveness will remain a distant dream.
Finally, in a country which struggles to fund its budgets while many of the wealthiest companies and people get away with paying little to nothing in taxes, where financial impropriety continues to jeopardise government’s ability to deliver services for its people, the National Assembly must urgently propose bills to provide financial justice, rather than what Nigerians have always known, which is exploitation of the majority, in an environment that neither rewards nor promotes justice or...
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