NACCIMA Urged to Provide Strategic Policy Roadmap for FG, Private Sector

Ugo Aliogo

Former Commissioner, for Employment Generation and Economic Empowerment, River State, Dr. Leloonu Nwibubasa, has urged the Nigerian Association of Chamber of Commerce Industry Mines And Agriculture, (NACCIMA) to wake-up to its responsibilities by providing strategic policy roadmap for federal government and private sector.

Nwibubasa disclosed this in Lagos at the SCALE Dialogue Series, with the theme: ‘Private Sector Engagement – Promoting Strategic Partnership Opportunities for Shared Growth.’

He also noted that as the umbrella organisation for businesses especially those in the private sector, it is expected that NACCIMA should be able to give a strategic direction to the private sector due to the sector’s ability to actually stimulate growth.

“If there is no growth, values cannot be created and if values are not created, jobs cannot be created, therefore NACCIMA must go beyond its traditional practice of playing in-house politics to come up with strategic policy roadmap for government and private sector,” he said.

Nwibubasa, who is also the President of Foundation for Sustainable Enterprise Development Initiative, revealed that the federal government should not present the national budget to the Senate without making appropriate consultation with NACCIMA.

He further explained that the capacity of NACCIMA should be built so that they can provide direction for government in the areas of employment creation, and economic growth.

Earlier in her remarks, the Deputy Chief of Party, Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement, (SCALE), Bose Eitokpah, stated that there is need for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to collaborate with private sector to drive inclusion in their activities, expand their reach and get stakeholders’ involvement in their activities.

She said: “Increased collaboration with the private sector would allow CSOs to tap into the resources are available within the private sector to help them meet their projects targets and expand the impact of their activities. It will also help them to promote sustainability of their various efforts and institutions. The resources from donors are drying up because there are a lot of competitions and this has necessitated the CSOs to lookout to other sources of income to be able to continue in what they do. The private provides a very viable option for driving resources for the CSOs. We are trying to create awareness for the CSOs of the enormous resources within the private