As Naira Further Weakens, Soyinka Calls for Emergency Economic Summit
Today, Nobel
Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has called on President Muhammadu Buhari
to convey an emergency economic summit, so as to address the problem
of incessant fall in the value of naira.
Soyinka also urged the government to conduct it's war against graft within the confines of the law.
The dramatist who
blamed the current economic situation on bad governance, urged
the current administration to inject new ideas into the nation's
economy.
He stated these
on Thursday in Abuja, when he paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of
Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
''The
economic condition of a nation, of a people does not deteriotate
overnight. Something came before that deterioration,'' he said, while
answering a question on the current state of the nation's economy.
He blamed the
deterioration of the economy on a prolonged and unchecked process of
attrition, adding that Nigerians should not expect a quick turnaround of
the economy.
''Recovery is going to
take quite a while, the President should call an emergency economic
conference, with experts to be invited. Consumers, producers, labour
unions, university experts, professors," he said.
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