A former Senate Chief whip, Senator Rowland Owie, Saturday, appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan not to scrap some government agencies, saying the action would worsen unemployment in the country.
Owie, who also lauded the President for his intervention in the Ajaokuta Steel Company, warned him to beware of those who may be working for the opposition inside his government.
He accused aides of the President, who are suggesting harsh policies, of formulating ideas that would further impoverish the common man.
The politician in a statements said, “I wish to appeal to our son and brother, President Goodluck Jonathan, not to listen to those agents of doom that are pushing for the scrapping of over 200 government organizations by his government.
“The argument of these agents of IMF and World Bank is that you must scrap these organizations to free resources from recurrent expenditure in favour of capital expenditure. What an evil argument?
“A Bini parable says `It is the balance of feeding money that is used to build a house’. The first priority of good government all over is the welfare of the individual human beings, created in the image and likeness of God. The development of infrastructure comes after food has been put on the table of Nigerians.
According to him, hundreds of Nigerians that were staff of NITEL, Nigeria Airways, Aladja Steel, Itakpe, Aluminium Smelting, Oko Ibokun and Iwopin Paper Mills, Bacita Sugar Industry, Ajaokuta Steel, to mention a few, have been dying daily because of the bad policies of former President, Obasanjo.
He said Jonathan’s government can’t afford to take Nigerians through the same road.
“The same agents of foreign institutions that gave SAP poison to a benevolent government of IBB are around, pushing also for a total deregulation of the petroleum industry, Mr President must resist them.
On the proposed restructuring, Owie noted that columnists around Jonathan, were in order words asking him to scrap organs with over 300,000 Nigerian workers.
He further congratulated the Presidentt for reclaiming Ajaokuta Steel Company for Nigeria
“Please see what you can do to revive the place,” he pleaded.
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