Manufacturing stakeholders have charged the new president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to prioritise revival of real sector and textile industry, if he must achieve his planned industrial revolution that is expected to generate one million jobs as he promised.
Noting that his planned creation of one million jobs would be a mirage without addressing electricity and multiple taxation, they appealed to him to create ease of doing business.
This is even as they noted that, the federal government should strive to bring down prices of food stuff in order to prune rising inflation which has reached almost 40 per cent not minding the figure given by Nigerian Bureau of Statistics.
The stakeholders described the wrong figures from NBS as unreliable and economic fraud to be under feeding the general public with outdated statistic figure.
Speaking at the just concluded programme, organised by Commerce and Industry Correspondents Association of Nigeria {CICAN}, Organised Private Sector {OPS}, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agnculture (NACCIMA), Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO) and others, the stakeholders charged BAT to, within his first 100 days in office, embark on how to achieve creation of jobs as he promised.
On her part, Barrister Toki Mabogunje, who also is the third female president and immediate past president of Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry {LCCI}, charged President Bola Tinubu to come out by appointing and put people with round peg in round holes.
The founder, Toki Mabogunje & Co appealed to BAT to create healthy business environment that would restore real sector, which is the hub of economic development and fast track growth of small scale industry for growth of the nation’s GDP.
She called on the new regime to expeditiously develop a framework that would ensure the country has a well-diversified revenue base, as this would help macroeconomic stability.
On his part, the managing director and editor-in-chief, Guardian Newspapers, Martins Oloja, charged the Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration to adopt the private sector approach to put the nation on a steady path to achieve economic growth and development, noting that, the model would prioritise the welfare of electorates.
Oloja urged the new administration to also prioritise efforts in nation building more than ever before, explaining that, the nation is being divided as a result of ethnic bias and other socioeconomic and cultural factors.
