A former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, on Sunday faulted President Bola Tinubu for guiding Qatari business captains to report Nigerian officers who demand any type of bribe earlier than permitting them to function enterprise within the nation.
Tinubu made the assertion whereas assuring the worldwide enterprise neighborhood that his administration will deal decisively with any corrupt or sharp follow that undermines investor confidence within the financial system.
In keeping with him, the nation would now not be held again by previous bureaucratic bottlenecks and corruption that stifled the benefit of doing enterprise.
Reacting to his utterances, Chidoka stated he was embarrassed that Tinubu selected to toe the trail of his predecessor by de-marketing the nation.
The chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Get together expressed his considerations when he featured as a visitor on Channels Tv’s Politics At this time.
He stated, “It was an unlucky assertion. I used to be shocked and embarrassed that he was persevering with Buhari’s kind of de-marketing of Nigeria.
“There are a lot of Nigerians who is not going to ask for a bribe or disturb folks. The individuals who will most likely ask you for a bribe are within the minority. The job of the President is to promote Nigeria, to be the chief spokesperson and chief salesperson of Nigeria.
“I feel that is the lacuna that comes when there’s a poor briefing from the companies of presidency. I don’t actually blame the President. I blame the lack of individuals just like the Minister of Info and International Affairs for the theme of the federal government.
“The federal government has to have a theme like we’re pro-investment, we wish to entice international alternate. Our mission is to deodorise Nigeria, to inform a very good story about Nigeria, to inform Africa’s rising narrative and to say that this transformation of presidency is a brand new mandate that tells you ways Nigeria has been in a position to maintain democracy for twenty-four going to 25 years now.
“So the story about Nigeria will not be a narrative of bribery and corruption. And we don’t need a President who individuals are calling from Qatar to report a bribe. They need to report them to the police, EFCC, ICPC or every other workplace of presidency that offers with that.”
Persevering with, Chidoka urged Tinubu to borrow a leaf from different presidents on the planet, who regardless of realizing in regards to the soiled dealings of corporations and buyers of their nation, hardly come to the media to denigrate their society.
He cited the alleged bribery case of Agip, an Italian automotive gasoline, diesel, LPG, lubricants, gasoline oil, and bitumen retailer, for example.
In keeping with him, the Pesident will probably be doing the nation a disservice if he continues to provide international buyers the unsuitable notion to the Nigerian folks.
“I don’t assume that his contemporaries and different international locations are busy in search of bribe-takers. Did you hear the president of Italy remark in regards to the Agip bribery case in Nigeria? It’s not the enterprise of the federal government of Italy nor ought to or not it’s the enterprise of Nigeria. The people who find themselves caught doing it ought to be punished. There ought to be processes for punishing folks.
“No international investor will probably be completely satisfied to know that he wants to speak to the President to have the ability to reverse a problem of corruption or bribery. No person on the planet want to try this. Have you ever heard from any President from the nation of Halliburton popping out to discuss Halliburton or the Enron instances? No, the American folks have handed a legislation and stated these are issues we must always cease corporations from doing going ahead.
“International locations and presidents take motion to systematically clear up the issue, not whistleblowing and catching thieves. It’s not good optics for Nigeria. I hope that sooner or later, he is not going to say this once more. He ought to simply discover a method to reverse himself and say ‘I simply wish to present you that we’re on prime of the state of affairs.’ Nigerian banks are working all over the world. Nigerian banks are working within the US and still have banking licences within the UK. Why are you going to make folks consider that Nigerians are bribe-takers?” he queried.
