By Ekuson Nw’Ogbunka
The Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Prince Interior Furniture and Furnishing Company Limited, Prince Emeka Egwuekwe, who doubles as the proprietor, Prince Interior Vocational Training Institute has advised President Ahmed Bola Tinubu of Nigerian to encourage skill acquisition in the country.
Addressing journalists Tuesday in the institute in Abuja the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Egwuekwe believed that encouragement of enrolment of youths in vocational institutes in the country, will not only stop dependence in foreign goods for what could be produced in Nigeria, but will also promote export, which in turn will result into favourable ballance of trade.
Speaking further, he said with a well equiped vocational and skill acquisition institute in each geopolitical zone or state, would go a long way to train Nigerians youths in the area of school acquisition and vocation, insisting that: “There is a need for the Tinubu – led Federal Government (FG) to think toward this direction.”
He also advised Mr President to do everything legally possible to reduce the cost of governance, by merging some of the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and use the money in running in other areas. With all these reformations, he went on, there will be positive change in the system.
Sharing his views on the ongoing #ENDBADGOVERNANCE PROTESTS,” and believing that behind every protest, there is a reason, he told Tinubu to listen to the yearings of the protesters and and Nigerians and find a lasting solution to that. He enjoined him to continue to seek for dialogue, which if done, according to him would go a long way.
Although he believed that it is the right of the protesters to protest as one of the instruments of democracy, but Prince Emeka Egwuekwe, however, advised the protesters to have it in mind that the present government in power inherited a lot of decays from the previous administration. According to him, the removal of subsidies and other similar policies will go a long way in the nearest future, even as he enjoined Nigerians to be patient with Mr President.