Diversification: NGO Tasks FG On Infrastructure

The Advocacy for
Economic Integrity, an NGO, has urged the Federal Government to provide infrastructure for the diversification of the nation’s economy.
The NGO’s Director-General, Mr Abdullahi Aremu, told newsmen in Abuja yesterday that the provision of infrastructure was critical to diversification of the economy.
Aremu urged the Federal Government to address the infrastructure deficits in its efforts to achieve diversification objective.
“In Nigeria, the importance of addressing the infrastructure deficits and challenges are enormous. The Federal Government should address inadequate and dilapidated road networks, poor or nonexistent public water and sewer systems.’’
He said that others to be addressed were poor and failed public transportation or mass transit systems, lack of sanitation systems and lack of effective or adequate security systems.
“Dysfunctional public and private housing construction regimes that have resulted in numerous new residential and business developments that are best described as slums.
“Even in cities such as Abuja, new road constructions are set out without adequate median demarcations, dysfunctional traffic lighting systems, and shopping centres with poorly planned vehicle parking systems,’’ he said.
The director-general stressed the need for reasonable community telephony and broadband expansions that would make Nigeria to become technology dependent.
He urged the Federal Government to sustain its efforts in using power and agriculture to diversify the economy.