The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah, on Tuesday said synergy between the government and the Organised Private Sector is key to long-term objective of nation building.
Enelamah said this when the members of the OPS, led by Babatunde Ruwase, President, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, visited him to submit a report.
“Nation building is collective and a long-term process that needs to be approached with humility by all involved.
“For that to happen, there is need for active collaboration between businesses and the government,’’ Enelamah said in a statement issued by his Strategy and Communications Adviser, Bisi Daniels.
He said that the government was committed to ports reforms, adding that “Trading Across Borders” is a key plank of the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council’s reform efforts.
Enelamah assured the stakeholders that the government would study the report and take necessary actions.
Earlier, Ruwase thanked the minister for his sustained intervention across Ministries, Departments and Agencies to make industries and the economy operate more efficiently.
Ruwase said: “As the Vice Chairman of the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council , your efforts over the last few years on Ease of Doing Business is noteworthy, and this is beginning to yield positive results.
“For instance, the World Bank Annual Ease of Doing Business report show that Nigeria moved by 24 points from 169th in 2016 to 145th in 2017 out of 185 countries ranked.”
Ruwase said the report, entitled “Nigeria: Reforming the Maritime Ports”, acknowledged ongoing reform measures currently being implemented by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration in the ports.
He said it also outlined some ports reform measures that yielded positive outcomes in other countries, and then suggested short, medium and long-term measures to reposition Nigeria’s maritime ports.
He said: “We believe that the success of the ongoing reforms in the ports is largely predicated on the buy-in of all stakeholders, political will of the presidency and PEBEC through active and sustained enforcement.
“Monitoring and sanctions when necessary, also contributed to the success.”
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