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Don Tasks Regulators On Capacity Building
Regulators of all the sectors of the nations economy have been charged to build adequate capacity to ensure effective and efficient regulation of the various sectors, with a view to attracting more investments that would contribute to the growth of Gross Domestic Products (GDP) of the nation.
The charge was given by Dr Karamu Ateva, in an interview with The Tide on Friday during the burial ceremony of late Godfrey Njiowhor, at Rumuagholu in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Dr. Ateva who is a lecturer in the Faculty of Management Science, University of Maiduguri, blamed the Nigerian Financial Crisis and Stock Market Crash of 2008 on lax regulation and recklessness on the part of some banks, noting that there was on urgent need for regulators to synergise on capacity building to forestall future occurrence.
He called on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) National Pension Commission (PENCOM), Nigeria Insurance Commission (NAICOM), to ensure zero tolerance to infractions, saying that the Nigerian economy was on a threshold of a major quantum leap.
According to him, “The regulators need to do more because many of them are clearly lacking capacity, which I am sure they are working on at the moment. But there are companies in Nigeria today that can get away with anything because of the situation we find ourselves in this country, and I think the situation is changing because every regulator is trying to replicate what the CBN did with the banking sector,” he said.
While calling on the federal government to enforce its directive that all public companies in the country migrate to the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), he pointed out that the policy was capable of taking Nigeria’s economy to the next level.
“It will improve reporting standards in the country and investors will be able to compare results of quoted companies in different sectors.
“Above all, investors can now trust quoted companies. Before now you are aware that all banks have different year end and each can come and tell you they are the biggest and at the end of each year you end up with five banks claiming to be the biggest in the country,” he said.
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