Vice President Yemi Osinbajo Saturday, charged members of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) to make legislation that will help secure the future of Africans and the continent.
He gave the charge while declaring open the 48th Session of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (African Region) in Owerri, Imo.
Highlights:
- Osinbajo urged African leaders to go beyond rhetoric and offer values, saying democracy would be of no meaningless if it cannot improve the welfare of Africans.
- He also urged the parliamentarians to help secure democracy in the continent.
- Osinbajo said: “The power and responsibility for rewriting the story of Africa lies in our hand.
- “We will be charlatans of the worst order if our leadership does not secure the future for our people while providing for the present.”
- He noted the legislature and the executive have a duty to the people and must ensure harmony and stability for the system.
- Osinbajo, however, stressed that “even when the two arms of government agree, it must not become a conspiracy against the people”.
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