Stop relying on foreign support, FG counselled
The Chief Executive Officer, Samguono International, Apostle Samuel Emiaso, has charged the Nigerian government to take responsibility of the nation’s development and stop relying on international support, saying that the earlier we come out with a template of economic revival using available local resources the better for the country.
Emiaso said Nigeria got it wrong when it jettisoned her early sources of economic mainstay which were mainly agriculture, trade and local manufacturing, and relaxed because of the free money coming from oil. “We missed because we did not see tomorrow.”
Emiaso made the observations at a press briefing to herald a free training agricultural and other avenue aimed at exposing the people of Delta State to local opportunities available for the citizenry to change their economic fortune. The training christened “Hope for Nigeria and Economic Power,” will hold at Flock of Christ Gospel Church Enerhen between February 9 to 11, 2017. The programme is powered by Go Ambassadors International in partnership Samguono International.
“It is shocking that Nigeria is a blessed country yet we cannot take care of ourselves. I once was in Israel as was shocked when a man asked where are you from and I said Nigeria. The statement he made I don’t forget it till tomorrow. He said rich country and when I was about smiling, my smile was punctured by his next statement when he said poor people. Rich country, poor people!”
“We have wealth but cannot harness it. There are so many people out there without job but there are things we can do to create wealth. My father once said to me in the 80s, my son go and study agriculture because this country will later return to agriculture. Thirty something years have gine and Nigeria is returning to agriculture.”
Apostle Emiaso said the aim of the free agric and economic training to empower people with local and foreign expertise, adding exposure around the world to make Deltans, nay Nigerians believe in themselves as we cannot continue to sit and wait for government for unavailable jobs. He added that it is time Nigerian youths become their boss and own their own jobs.
“As long as we continue to be a consuming country, consuming state, consuming local government, consuming cities, consuming towns, we won’t catch attention from anywhere. But when we begin to produce that is where we will find the power, the economic is in production.”
Emiaso, former Staff of Shell International and former Manager Agric Said it was high time Nigeria come up with a template that will redirect the attention of both government and citizens to agriculture which in several ways has the potentials to transform the economy from grassroots to the highest level.
He called on both youths and elders to make themselves availabe for the training as it would unvail the secret of unlocking the potentials inherent in our economy. He noted that there are huge opportunities in agriculture value change capable of taking Nigeria out of recession.
