Dangote Makes Case For Private Sector Operators

President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has said that his foray into petrochemical and the industrial sub-sector was part of his own contribution to reducing unemployment in the country, saying if more Nigerians were economically empowered through gainful employment,  poverty would have reduced to a minimal level.


Dangote who has ventured into the construction of refinery and estabilishment of fertiliser plants in parts of the country said at the weekend that the task of reinvigorating the nation’ s economy rests more on the shoulders of the private sector and urged other investors to lend goverment ahelping hand in this direction.

According to him, the task of government is more of providing the enabling environment for the private sector to thrive through the right policies and infrastructural provisions.

In a statement issued weekend he said that he was optmistic that the present federal government was already focusing on those issues that would help the private sector perform optimally as enshrined in the transformation agenda of president Goodluck Jonathan.

Speaking while adressing members of a business group who paid him a visit in his office at the weekend, Dangote said no government anywhere has ever succeeded without the imput of the private sector.

He then commended the federal government for listening to the private sector and intervening in the critical areas of attention such as the backward integration policy which started with the cement sector, but now being extended to agriculture as found in the ingredient substitution in the making of bread, sugar and in some other subsectors of the economy.

Dangote also urged the governmnet not to relent in helping the organised private sector by intervening in other areas of their operations where the inclement climate under which they operate has hampered them from attaining installed capacities.

“Good enough, Nigeria has the resources and the market for any company to survive, only in few other areas government should intensify efforts to ensure to make the sector attractive to investors”.,hesaid.

“I have always said it that Nigeria is a good place to invest. We have all in abundance. God has bless this country, what we have naturally in abundance is what other countfies are looking for to buy”, he stated.

Dangote said he is very optimitic of Nigerians economic revival through the private sector noting that the current challenges facing the country will soon be a thing of the past.

He appealed to Nigerians to contribute their own quota by always doing what is right and adequately paying their taxes as part of their own contribution to the growth and development of the country, while urging the citizenry not to be discouraged by various challenges facing the nation stating that, they are necessary steps needed for the nation to rank among the best industrially in years to come.

Dangote Group, he promised, will invest more in Nigeria, create more jobs as he has an unwavering faith in the nation’s economy, pointing out that all his investments would be tailored towards job creation for gainful employment so as to alleviate poverty among the people.