By Emma Okereh, Abuja
Miffed by the influence of the Dollar over the Naira, a young Imo state born business man, Evangelist Chidiebere Ike has challenged the authorities of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as well as the relevant federal government agencies saddled with the responsibility to run the country’s economy, to stabilize the Naira and create value to the currency.
He said that given the opportunity, he will share his knowledge with the government that can put the economy on a sound footing such that other countries would wonder how it was done.
Speaking at a conference themed, “Building Materials: An integral tool for rapid national development”, in Owerri, Evangelist Ike who is also the managing director/ CEO of Chidi Master Building, tasked governments at all levels to surrender business to the business community noting that businesses driven by business men and women usually succeed in spite of bottlenecks.
He stated that the stability of the local currency is the way to quick economic recovery as the economy cannot be controlled by force with price control mechanism.
He further urged both federal and state governments to provide the enabling environment for business to thrive.
He noted that a burgeoning business environment will give rise to a happy, peaceful and patriotic citizens which will translate into a prosperous and secure nation.
He further stated that once government can demonstrate capacity in providing the basic necessities of life like electricity, water, good road network that can guarantee transportation of goods and services, adequate transport system and security, the beauty and creativity of Nigerians will manifest exceedingly.
“Nigeria has all it takes to be the best in the world. How can a country that has over 200 million population go broke. Nigerian currency is number one problem that needs to be attended to because creating value to Nigeria currency will solve 90% of Nigeria problem, if we are thinking of solving Nigeria problem, we should think of creating value to Nigerian currency.
To solve Nigeria’s problem we must think of creating value to the Naira.
He stated that a man with vision like Joseph in the land of Egypt, revealed the idea that liberated the people of Egypt in the time of crisis and Egypt became the number one where other nations ran to for survival.
“Nigeria will be known as that nation that solve their problems in this time of climate change and other nation will be wondering “how did we do it”, if given the opportunity to share the idea that will create value to Nigeria currency.
While reiterating that creating value to Naira will solve 90% or more of Nigeria’s problems, the young entrepreneur averred that he would not hesitate to freely share his economic recovery ideas with the government for the sake of peace and prosperity when asked to do so by the government.
