The immediate past Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, has said that 12 game changers and more than 60 reforms has been implemented so as to effectively diversify the economy.
Aganga said this while speaking at a send-off dinner organised in his honour by the ministry in Abuja on Thursday.
He said “We have implemented more than 12 game changers and more than 60 reforms to enable us diversify the economy and the revenue resources of the government so that we will no longer rely on oil alone.
“So, if there is only one wish, I will hope and pray that we continue strictly with the implementation of the industrial revolution plan. That is the only thing that will diversify the revenue sources of this country.
“Countries that rely only on one product that have successfully diversified have stayed on the same programme for eight to nine years. We need to keep to the same programme. We should not fall and move and change policies because we will never realise having to diversify the economy and revenue sources of the government.
“So, if it’s only one thing I need to plead, let’s stay on this part for the next eight or nine years. We have set the pace with the reforms, all that is needed is continued implementation and sticking to it for the next eight to nine years.”
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