PRESIDENT of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has said that his
adventure into petrochemical and agricultural industrial sub-sectors was
part of his own contribution to reduce unemployment in the country,
saying if more Nigerians are economically empowered through gainful
employment, poverty will be reduced to a minimal level.
Dangote, who has ventured into the construction of refinery and
estabilishment of fertiliser plants in parts of the country, said at the
weekend that the task of reinvigorating the nation’ s economy rested
more on the shoulders of the private sector, and urged other investors
to lend the goverment a helping hand in this direction.
According to him, the task of the government was more of providing
the enabling environment for the private sector to thrive through the
right policies and infrastructural provision.
He stated that he was optmistic that the present Federal Government
was already focusing on those issues that would help the private sector
to perform optimally, as enshrined in the transformation agenda of
President Goodluck Jonathan.
Speaking while adressing members of a business group who paid him a
visit in his office at the weekend, Dangote said no government anywhere
had ever succeeded without the imput of the private sector.
He commended the Federal Government for listening to the private
sector and intervening in the critical areas of attention such as the
backward integration policy, which started with the cement sector and
now being extended to agriculture as found in the ingredient
substitution in the making of bread, sugar and in some other subsectors
of the economy.
Dangote still urged the governmnet not to relent in helping the
organised private sector by intervening in other areas of their
operations in which the inclement climate under which they operated had
hampered them from attaining installed capacities.
“Good enough,” Dangote said, “Nigeria has the resources and the
market for any company to survive. Only in few other areas government
should intensify efforts to make the sector attractive to investors.
“I have always said it that Nigeria is a good place to invest. We
have all in abundance. God has blessed this country. What we have
naturally in abundance is what other countries are looking for to buy,”
he stated.
Dangote said he was optimitic about the economic revival through the
private sector, noting that the current challenges facing the country
would soon be a thing of the past.
He appealed to Nigerians to contribute their quotas by always doing
what is right and adequately paying their taxes as part of their own
contributions to the growth and development of the country, while urging
the citizenry not to be discouraged by various challenges facing the
nation.
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