OPS Rejects FG’s Economic Team

The Organised Private
Sector (OPS) in Nigeria has rejected the newly constituted Economic Management Team (EMT) by President Muhamadu Buhari.
According to available reports, the OPS had observed  that the new  EMT, which is headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, had excluded representations from the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture, (NACCIMA), Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) and Nigerian Association of Small Medium Scale Enterprises, (NASME).
Other bodies protesting their exclusion are, Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG), National Employers Consultative Assembly (NECA) and Nigerian Association of Small Scale Industrialists, (NASSI).
In his reaction, the National President, NACCIMA, Dr Bassey Edem, stated that a memo had been written to President Buhari when the team was being constituted, alleging that nothing was done about it.
He added, I even raised the issue during NESG Economic Summit Round Table Session with Vice President Osinbajo in attendance, yet no action.
“The Economic Team is  for Nigeria as a whole and not just for the public sector.”
The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Mr Laolu Adaud, had in a statement explained that unlike  what obtained previously, the President Buhari’s administration would not include the private sector in the EMT.
He said, “the economic management is a government affair. Unlike in the past when private sector individuals were made members of the EMT, what this administration is doing is to constantly engage representive  of the private sector.”
The EMT members include, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as the head, Chief of staff to the President, Alhaji Abba Kyari, Deputy Chief of Staff, Mr Ade Ipaye, Ministers of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, Finacne, Kemi Adeosun , Petroleum (State), Ibe Kachikwu, Trade and Investment, Okechukwe Enelamah, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emetiele and the Director General of the Debt Management Office.