Consultant Lauds Lease Of Risonpalm, Supabod

The Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi has been commended for occasioning the Risonpalm Oil Nucleus and the leasing out of the Pabod supplies/Supabod stores for 35 years to private investors.

A management consultant, Anthony Waribigha who made the commendation on Monday in Port Harcourt, during an interview with The Tide, said that it will be meaningless for government to nurse the idea of going into business or resuscitating moribund industries because government has no business in doing business.

He opined that government should concession or sell off its businesses to the private sector rather than controlling and managing such businesses that will in the long run not favour the state.

According to him, no state government in the country had succeeded in carrying out business efficiently, adding that all that the state government needed to do was to create enabling environment for private enterprises to survive.

The Governor of Rivers State he noted, has already started well by getting the private sector involved in the business sector of the state, urging the government to sustain its policy on safe environment and ensure that the city centres and environs were rid of criminals who can man the economic development of the state.

Waribigha who also manage a consultancy firm Anwa Consult, said “looking at the pedigree of Governor Amaechi, he has touched all aspect of the state economy, but has to do more in the area of power, which is the strength of any industrial growth of a nation, especially the small and medium scale enterprises”.

He posited that the country’s quest for adequate power generation would have succeeded if the sector had been left to private entrepreneurs, regretting that no tangible improvement has been achieved in the power sector in the past 10 years because of government monopoly and influence.