The Initiative for Management and Financial Watch in Nigeria (ILEWN) has acknowledged that poverty in Nigeria is a man-made downside, not pure, saying Nigerians have the duty to seek out options to the malaise and never God.
The organisation additionally stated that it’s the civic responsibility of all educated Nigerians to proffer lasting options to the issue of poverty within the nation by means of important pondering that may produce fruitful concepts.
Govt director, ILEWN, Amb Splendor Agbonkpolor made the statements yesterday in Abuja throughout a roundtable dialogue on financial diversification with the theme: “The Participatory Position of Youths in Nation Constructing; The Authorities and the Personal Sector Drive of Nigeria Financial system from Oil Based mostly Financial system to a Strong Personal Sector-driven Financial system”
Agbonkpolor stated poverty is wreaking havoc on the lives and residing of Nigerian individuals, stressing the necessity for genius to come back collectively to rescue the state of affairs with concepts.
He stated, “The deplorable situation of our pricey Nigeria is not deniable. The state of affairs presently is so overwhelming that each one well-meaning Nigerians can not afford to take a seat idle and refuse to do one thing that may make a optimistic distinction within the affairs and fortunes of Nigeria and its residents.”
Agbonkpolor stated the agonising state of affairs is threatening so laborious to sink the nation alongside together with her residents if acceptable measures will not be urgently taken.
He pressured the plain that Nigeria is a extremely blessed nation, devoid of all types of deadly pure disasters similar to earthquakes, drought, cyclone, tornados that confront different nations and endanger the lives of their citizenry.
Little marvel, he stated it’s usually jokingly stated that God is a Nigerian.
“Think about if any of the pure disasters occurs in Nigeria, the adversity of the individuals would have been undescribable as a result of pure disasters are very tough to stop as their prevalence is totally past human management. All due to God for giving us Nigeria, a land with secure weather conditions and huge arable soil beneath that are mendacity valuable stones of monumental financial profit,” he stated.
