ABUJA – The Director-General, Advocacy for Economic Integrity, an NGO, Mr Abdullahi Aremu, on [pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]Tuesday said the energy, transportation and agriculture were critical sectors to address the infrastructure deficit in the country.
Aremu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that the sectors were imperative as they would [pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]assist in driving development of other sectors of the Nigerian economy.
“Unless Nigeria adequately addresses its infrastructure deficits, we may lag behind meaningful [pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]economic development indexes.
“At its minimum, failure to address the infrastructure deficits will widen the development gap between [pro_ad_display_adzone id=”8″]
Nigeria and such countries as China, India, Brazil, South Korea, etc.
“Because these countries have continued to engage in serious repositioning of their infrastructure for the development challenges of the 21st century,’’ the director-general said.
According to him, governments at all levels should solve and improve on inadequate and dilapidated road networks, poor and failed public transportation, epileptic power supply and dysfunctional agriculture system.
Aremu said special intervention funds, public private partnership arrangements and significant percentages of annual budgets of federal, state and local governments would go a long way in closing infrastructure gap. (NAN)
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