Nigeria should be giant in development, not only in population – Shehu Sani

Former Kaduna legislator and societal critic, Shehu Sani, has said that Nigeria should not lone beryllium the elephantine of Africa successful population, but successful each sectors of the economy.

He spoke connected the sidelines of the Inaugural Memorial Lecture of Prince Emeka Obasi, the precocious Publisher of Business Hallmark, with the title: ‘If this Giant Must Walk; Manifesto for a New Nigeria’.

Sani, who represented Kaduna Central successful the 8th National Assembly and served arsenic the Chairman, Senate Committee connected Local and Foreign Debts, said Nigeria was not yet wherever it should be.

“We are a federation of 220 cardinal radical and we pridefulness ourselves arsenic a Giant of Africa. Well, colonisation is an asset, but what bash we usage that colonisation for?

“We should beryllium elephantine successful manufacturing, elephantine successful export; elephantine successful shipbuilding; elephantine successful car manufacturing; elephantine successful accusation technology; elephantine successful agricultural; elephantine successful education. “Nigeria is not determination yet, we shouldn’t conscionable beryllium elephantine successful population,” Sani said.

He expressed daze wherefore the country’s problems had remained intractable, calling for factual actions for solutions to the country’s challenges.

According to him, if Nigeria does not person h2o to portion and powerfulness proviso with each rivers around, if determination is hunger with the arable onshore around, the occupation is not God but self-inflicted.

“Nigeria has everything God should springiness us. Where is the solution? The archetypal happening is, Nigeria should code the information challenges we are facing today.

“I’m a spot impressed due to the fact that advancement is being made, but we request to bring an extremity to terrorists and bandits that are destroying our country, kidnapping our people,” helium added.

The erstwhile lawmaker, who said that determination was a request for immense concern successful subject and technology, besides said that the federation needed an each retired warfare against terrorists, with good equipped and funded information agencies, saying without security, ”Nigeria cannot walk”.