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The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) said it would not allow the Federal Government, through its continuous court cases, or organised labour, through its consistent strike actions, and arbitrary invitations by the National Assembly to destroy legitimate businesses.
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The employers’ body said their actions and inactions have consequences for their businesses.
Director-General of NECA, Adewale-Smatt Oyerinde, said this at a press conference.
He said the recklessness with which government through the National Assembly, especially, is relating with businesses was quite unfortunate.
He appealed to the executive and the National Assembly that ceaseless invitations of organised businesses was disruptive and unnecessary, especially when there were agencies created to regulate and interact with the businesses.
Rather than inviting employers to Abuja non-stop, Oyerinde said, the country needed to see the benefits of reforms promised by the current administration.
He lamented that policy contradictions have been a huge challenge to businesses, which has led to the exit of many businesses and employers.
He said successive administrations had not developed the political will to take the country towards sustainable growth.
The NECA chief lamented that the conspiracy against the country was so huge that only effective leadership was needed to address it.
All these, Oyerinde said, had created different reasons while the economy was not growing.
On why Nigeria is not doing the right thing, he said: “What is happening to Nigeria and where it has gotten it wrong was all about choices. Successive governments have chosen the option to continue digging into the hole even while the instrument of digging is very blunt because those in power are not doing what is right. All these create different dynamics while the economy is not growing.”
On businesses that have exited the country, he said many people had lost their jobs while a lot too had been dislocated along the value chain.
“It is a dangerous threat across the value chain and if we don’t conceptualise it, it might lead the country to doom,” he said.
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