According to Dangote, the Buhari administration should hit the ground running given the high rate of unemployment in the country especially as it is a nation-wide challenge. He believes there is a need to declare an emergency on unemployment as a way of jump-starting a solution pack for the problem.
“It is a great and pervasive problem in Nigeria. But the point must be made that it is not peculiarly a Nigerian problem. All over the world, there are growing issues of unemployment. And what we are saying is that the in-coming government can achieve a remarkable success in this regard if it declares an emergency on unemployment and tackle it decisively. You know the organised private sector will or should play a key role in this. And that is why we are concerned,” Dangote explained.
While speaking on the imperative of generating and distributing more power, the richest man in Africa urged the Buhari administration to revisit the ongoing privatisation programme in the energy sector with a view to growing the energy capacity of the country.
He reasoned that with increased electricity output, the industrial capacity in the country would increase remarkably and this would in turn increase productivity, which could only be supported by increased manpower in the various companies.
Beside the industrial growth it could trigger, Dangote observed that even the small and medium scale businesses which are dying because of insufficient energy supply, would begin to experience boom again, stressing that “and you never can tell the number of people this segment of businesses can engage”.
Speaking further, Dangote bemoaned the damage corruption has done to the Nigerian economy. He observed that ‘it is a big cankerworm that has really eaten deep into the fabric of our nation”, adding that “ we must therefore be decisive in dealing with the monster, if we must rescue and grow Nigeria”.
“The malaise of corruption is a threat to the survival of the Nigeria economy, no doubt. We must all therefore rise in unison to tackle the menace both in the public and private sector of the economy. The Buhari-led government can show a lot of strength on this issue by showing direction, by demonstrating commitment to ridding every sector of the economy of this malaise.
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