A professor of Virology, Oyewale Tomori says Nigeria now depends on international agencies such as International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank to pay workers salaries.
Tomori stated this on Thursday while delivering a lecture on the topic “Science, Scientist and Society” at the 79th Interdisciplinary Research Discourse of the Postgraduate College, University of Ibadan.
Professor Tomori who is a member of the World Health Organisation Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 vaccine composition, lamented that the current democratic system in the country is full of corruption and immorality.
The University Don said: “While other countries are getting sumptuous results on their investments, we are wallowing in our own return on iniquity and on return on immorality.
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“That is why we have 10.5 million of our children out of school, 4.5 million under-vaccinated, we become the poverty capital of the world.
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“We are investing hugely in corruption and disdain for science and technology.
“And we now depend on IMF loans and world bank to pay our workers’ salaries, to import food which we should be producing.”
