I’m sure you have heard of Nenadi Usman. She was the former Minister of State in the past administration and this is what she had to say to Okonjo Iweala the current Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the economy. We have seen this happen before but it’s still worthy of note.
,For any country that want economic growth and for that growth to be felt by the majority of the people small and medium enterprises and industry have a great role for any meaningful growth to take place.
This particular sector must be tackled and tackle seriously. In china , India and all the countries that are making it today which economies are growing and the people are feeling their growth are getting right because of involvement of this sector.
Here you are telling people that the economy is growing at 6 percent and the people are saying they are not feeling it, that is because they just haven’t gotten it right. That is incremental to the growth.”
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