The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign and Local Debts, Senator Shehu Sani, has described those requesting for the sale of national assets as “economic vultures and hyenas who want to take advantage of the situation in the country”.
Sani said this on Thursday evening during the conferment of the Kwame Nkrumah Leadership award on him by the West African Student Union.
The award was presented to Sani in his office in Abuja.
Sani said those clamouring for the sale of the country’s national assets in the bid to overcome the current economic recession facing the country were saboteurs.
It will be recalled that business mogul, Aliko Dangote, and the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, are among notable Nigerians who have called for the sale of national assets, including refineries and the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas Limited, to overcome the country’s economic recession.
But Sani said: “Our private sector operators are leeches and parasites and we have them always looking towards exploiting every restriction for their own benefit.
“We don’t have captains of industries other than fronts, business fronts for people in position of power.
“There are no captains of industries in Nigeria.
“Most of the people who are today calling themselves captains of industries are representing either people who are in government before or people who are still in government and they don’t produce to export.
“They arrange seekers and commission agents and they are not looking for junk industry, which they will revive, they are are looking for functional industries, our collective national assets, which they will also buy.
“For those who are calling that we should sell our collective national assets, the simply want to benefit from the crashes.
“They are like vultures and hyenas that want to benefit from the carcass that remains on the ground here.
“So that is what it is.
“Africa as much as we stood up against political imperialism, we also have to fight economic imperialism from the outside and from the inside.
“From the outside it is represented by multinational corporations who exploit the resources of Africa to sustain their economies there.
“We used to have them from the West.
“Now they are also from the East.”
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