Economic Recession: Elder statesman tells FG to invest in science and technology

In a bid to revamp the nation’s economy, the federal government has been urged to strengthen the Ministry of Science and Technology as part its diversification process to reduce economic hardship in Nigeria.

An Elder statesman, Chief Damian Inyamah gave the advice during an interview while speaking on the state of the economy.

Chief iyamah who is the immediate past President Igbo Delegates Assembly in 19 Northern State including the Federal Capital Territory decried that Nigeria in the last fifty years has been wasteful, have failed to plan and has continued to indulge in favoritism.

The Elder statesman observed that Nigeria has the opportunities long ago to diversify the economy, but due to mismanagement, bad leadership, corruption, the nation has found its self in this economic quagmire.

Apart from agriculture that is widely speculated as the way out of this mess, the former Igbo Delegate Assembly President said when the federal government develop its technology, Nigeria in the next one year will be among top develop nation in the world with it available resources, weather landmarks and brains.

Recalling the 1945 case of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in  Japan where all were lost and the over 30 month civil war  were individuals thinks to survive due to hardship, Chief Iyama pointed that  difficult time gives rooms for intellect to think critically on how to move on with their lives.

According to him, necessity is the moral of invention, adding that, during the 1967-1970 Nigeria civil war, Biafrans soldiers where refining fuel in the kitchen, urine were also used to drive cars.

Chief Inyamah believes that, when an individual is in need his brain start working expressing his reservations that Nigeria is heading towards that line where the brain works and the stomach will no longer take control.

He also subscribed to the recent steps taken by the federal government to diversify the economy through agriculture stressing that Nigerians is facing hard time expressing optimism for a better economy in the nearest future.

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