Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila on Wednesday said the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up a challenge for Nigeria to be proactive in its social, health and economic affairs. He said it has become incumbent on the leadership of the country to have a rethink on approach to nation-building, politics, commerce and economics in terms of engagement with the rest of the world.
Gbajabiamila’s call was contained in his remarks at the public presentation of a book by the National Institute of Legislative and Democratic Studies, NILDS titled, “A political economy of pandemics & consequences of COVID-19 for Nigeria”.
The Speaker commended the Institute, saying the book be a guide to making of of polices going forward. “There will be a next time. The interconnectedness of global trade and our increased ability to traverse the world for leisure and enterprise guarantees that diseases that start in one part of the world cannot for too long be isolated there. This is our new reality, and we need to plan government in recognition of this.
”One of the benefits of having survived a global pandemic is that we are freed to decide to redesign things to better reflect our best expectations and to meet the highest ambitions we have of ourselves. We have a lot of work to do for our country. And in the months ahead, we will have to ask and answer a lot of hard questions about where we go from here. Thanks to Prof. Abubakar Suleiman and his team from the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), we have one more useful tool to guide our work and support our best efforts.”
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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila on Wednesday said the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up a challenge for Nigeria to be proactive in its social, health and economic affairs. He said it has become incumbent on the leadership of the country to have a rethink on approach to nation-building, politics, commerce and economics in terms of engagement with the rest of the world.
Gbajabiamila’s call was contained in his remarks at the public presentation of a book by the National Institute of Legislative and Democratic Studies, NILDS titled, “A political economy of pandemics & consequences of COVID-19 for Nigeria”.
The Speaker commended the Institute, saying the book be a guide to making of of polices going forward. “There will be a next time. The interconnectedness of global trade and our increased ability to traverse the world for leisure and enterprise guarantees that diseases that start in one part of the world cannot for too long be isolated there. This is our new reality, and we need to plan government in recognition of this.
”One of the benefits of having survived a global pandemic is that we are freed to decide to redesign things to better reflect our best expectations and to meet the highest ambitions we have of ourselves. We have a lot of work to do for our country. And in the months ahead, we will have to ask and answer a lot of hard questions about where we go from here. Thanks to Prof. Abubakar Suleiman and his team from the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), we have one more useful tool to guide our work and support our best efforts.”
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