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Monday, 25 July 2016
Governors’ trip to Germany not a jamboree — NGF
The planned trip to Germany by six governors under the Nigeria Governors’
Forum (NGF) is to seek partnership with investors, the forum said yesterday.
Reacting to the comments by lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana
(SAN), the forum said through its spokesman, Abdulrazak Bello-Barkindo that
the lawyer’s postulation that the trip was a jamboree was far from the truth.
“Six governors are embarking on a 3-day trip to Germany to discuss areas of
partnership and cooperation with a select group of German technocrats and
investors, with a view to seeking other options for economic partnership,
against their over-dependence on oil, which has consigned the country to a
mono-product economy,” the forum said.
It said while it did not intend to join issues with Falana, “it is obvious that the
real essence of the trip had not been explained to the lawyer, since he was
reacting to a story, whose content had not even fully reached the reporter that
was asking Falana questions.
“Six of them are going on behalf of the others in order to assimilate the true
import of the presentation by the German ambassador, and work out ways of
domesticating the advantages.
“The partnerships they are seeking will cover non-oil sectors such as
agriculture, health, renewable energy and vocational training institutions that
could employ our teeming unemployed and jobless youths.
“The trip that is being embarked upon is as Spartan as possible as no governor
is traveling with more than an aide, who is also responsible for the area of need
as it relates to their region, and they will be visiting several industrial
installations, vocational training centres and theme-parks to get a firsthand feel
of how they are organised so as to replicate same in their domains.”
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