Emmanuel Ugwu-Nwogo in Umuahia
As Nigeria’s political leaders proceed their recriminations over the nation’s beleaguered economic system, the President of Cosmo Base Consortium, Benson Ezem, has referred to as for stop hearth, saying that blame recreation received’t deliver resolution.
Talking in Umuahia, the event advisor stated that the basis trigger of the present financial woes of Nigeria “is corruption” which has permeated each each facet of life and each sector of the economic system.
“The problem of corruption is all over the place, we see it on a regular basis, take part in it immediately or not directly,” he lamented.
“This hydra-headed dragon has killed this nation and continues to be killing it.We’re all in charge in our completely different areas of endeavour, banking, federal ministries, church buildings, colleges, workplaces simply identify it.”
Ezem stated that there must be concerted efforts to avoid wasting the nation from the pervasive financial quagmire as an alternative of losing time buying and selling blames and in search of scapegoats.
“This isn’t the time to put blame on anybody, not on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” he stated, including the current scenario “calls for everybody, together with the labour union, to suppose outdoors the field, and our academia, Asuu to face and be counted.”
As a means out of the cesspool of corruption, Ezem stated that Nigerians “can collectively as a nation, as people rise to the event by standing towards it in our completely different spheres of life.”
He stated: “Our governors should realise they’re elected to make sure considered use of our widespread patrimony for the higher good of the individuals.
“These which are opportuned to be in energy right this moment ought to keep in mind that some individuals had been there earlier than and attempt to look and replicate the place historical past has a spot for them.”
He urged these plundering the nation’s sources positioned below their care to look again and verify what has develop into of people who had travelled the identical route and the individuals they left behind.
“This life could be very deep,God provides us alternative to satisfy our function however some by no means get to make use of that chance however waste it for lack of awareness.
“I’ll all the time say that for every thing you do in life, attempt to make lasting affect and all the time stay prepared, (as a result of) there would possibly by no means be a second probability,” he stated.
On the nagging concern of nonpayment of salaries and pensions by many state governments, Ezem emphasised that “we shouldn’t have any enterprise owing pensioners, owing salaries”.
In response to him, cost of salaries and pensions represent “must be the least (of the issues) the state ought to do”, noting that wage and pension issues have develop into recurring decimals principally within the public sector.
He suggested governments to borrow a leaf from the personal sector within the administration of salaries, gratuities and pensions as they don’t seem to be rocket sciences.
Utilizing his expertise as a personal sector employer, the Cosmo Base Consortium boss stated that governments may overcome the wage and pension points with applicable measures and insurance policies.
“I’ve operated my enterprise for over three a long time now as a personal concern. We’ve people who find themselves having fun with month-to-month pensions as a result of our partnership with Stanbic IBTC. Salaries are promptly paid as a result of to us that’s first cost earlier than something,” he stated.
“These in energy ought to suppose much less of self and household and construct the states entrusted into their care, understanding that after energy, they are going to come again to the identical state as another citizen,” he stated.
Ezem, who can also be a minister of God waxed biblical, reminding treasury looters that “self-importance upon self-importance all is self-importance” therefore the futility of amassing unlawful wealth on the expense of lasting legacies.
