Dismantle Criminality, Build Up Skills, Obi Tells FG

The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Mr Peter Obi, has said that the country must end criminality in order to build up skills and entrepreneurship as a strategy to address the current economic challenges.
He said this, Monday, in Lagos, at the 21st yearly lecture and international leadership symposium by the Centre for Values and Leadership (CVL), founded by Prof. Pat Utomi.
Noting that corruption and criminality kill hard work, he said there must be a deliberate fiscal policy by the government to grow talents, skills and entrepreneurship.
According to him, any country where people in government are richer than businessmen or manufacturers will not survive.
“Nigeria, I believe, is a great country but first, we must dismantle the criminality in government and then we can reverse it. Corruption kills entrepreneurship, professionalism and nobody thinks well in a corrupt country,” he said.
CVL founder, Prof Utomi, said Nigeria must stimulate entrepreneurship for global enterprise.
“How do we look at our endowment and take specific measures that we want to become global leaders in those value chains and use limited industrial policy to stimulate the sector and facilitate young people to becoming producers in that sector?”, he queried.