Stop playing politics with the economy- ICMC warns FG
Mon Sep 26, 2016 02:42:pm National
3.5K By Buchi Obichie
The Federal Government has been warned by the National President of the
Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators, ICMC, Dr Louis
Ogbeifun, against politicizing the economic recession in the country.
Speaking in Asaba, the capital of Delta State, Ogbeifun urged the Federal Government not to allow the economic recession to deteriorate into depression; warning that poverty and hunger were the sole catalysts for peoples' revolt in almost all ages.
Ogbeifun said: "Government can fight corruption with the teeth of the law. It can fight militancy, insurgency and other wars with guns and bombs but the war orchestrated by hunger, if allowed to rear its ugly head, does not respond to any law, arsenals and armaments.
"We still have the collective opportunity of working to ensure that our staple foods do not disappear or skyrocket from what is obtainable today.
"Government must stop playing politics with the economy. Government cannot be keeping idle fund when it is needed to reflate the economy. Bailouts should be production driven, specific and targeted towards meaningful development and not just to pay salaries.
"Once the stomach infrastructure is sorted out, we should side by side improve on our educational and health institutions to deal with poverty of the mind and body.
"There is no reason why our country cannot attract educational and medical tourism if we plan well. Every Nigerian should have access to clean water, affordable and clean energy, decent work and economic growth engendered by small and medium scale enterprises."
Speaking in Asaba, the capital of Delta State, Ogbeifun urged the Federal Government not to allow the economic recession to deteriorate into depression; warning that poverty and hunger were the sole catalysts for peoples' revolt in almost all ages.
Ogbeifun said: "Government can fight corruption with the teeth of the law. It can fight militancy, insurgency and other wars with guns and bombs but the war orchestrated by hunger, if allowed to rear its ugly head, does not respond to any law, arsenals and armaments.
"We still have the collective opportunity of working to ensure that our staple foods do not disappear or skyrocket from what is obtainable today.
"Government must stop playing politics with the economy. Government cannot be keeping idle fund when it is needed to reflate the economy. Bailouts should be production driven, specific and targeted towards meaningful development and not just to pay salaries.
"Once the stomach infrastructure is sorted out, we should side by side improve on our educational and health institutions to deal with poverty of the mind and body.
"There is no reason why our country cannot attract educational and medical tourism if we plan well. Every Nigerian should have access to clean water, affordable and clean energy, decent work and economic growth engendered by small and medium scale enterprises."
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