Abuja – The Refocusing Nigerians Talents Organisation (RENITO) on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to support inventors and innovators to utilise their talent for the benefit of humanity.
The RENITO’s Executive Director, Mr Abanka Musa, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
He said that the inventors and innovators need encouragement and enabling environment to showcase their creative abilities.
According to him, scope and expansion, the objectives of promoting research innovation, invention and entrepreneurship should remain supreme.
“For any nation to attain economic and developmental growth, it must be able to produce most of what its citizens consume internally.
“This process is not only healthy for the economy of the nation but in terms of Gross Domestic Products.
“It also embraces the overall living standard of citizens, employment opportunities provided by innovators and inventors initiatives,’’ Musa said.
Besides, he advised on government to establish innovation and invention villages in the 36 states of the country including the FCT.
Musa said the villages would harness, utilise, encourage and reach out to potential talents and creative minds among the citizens to eradicate the social vices in the country.
“Government should create a synergy with the formal and informal sectors of the economy in the area of research and utilisation of research findings on innovations and inventions.
“NGOs and Civil Societies focus on this mobilisation and talent hunt should be encouraged and support with favourable policies and funding grants to enable them continue the good work they are already doing,’’ he said.
Musa said the educational curriculum should be focus on artisanal, vocational and technical development, saying the discrimination between degree and HND would be wiped out.
He said most of foreign expatriates working in specialised jobs in the economy had artisanal, vocational and technical education as well as training from their home countries.
NAN reports that RENITO an NGO was established in April 1995 as result of the increasing level of unemployment and social unrest among young persons. (NAN)