Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility & Africapitalism: The Role of the Private Sector in Fighting Poverty in Nigeria , A Rejoinder
Bro Tony Elumelu, Kudos for the powerful and thought provoking presentation. While diligently reading through your lecture, a part of it jumped at me and I quote "So the sad fact is that despite valiant efforts by the government over the last 30 years ‘Austerity’ to the ‘Structural Adjustment Programme’ to ‘MAMSER’ to ‘SURE-P,’ poverty is on the rise in Nigeria". I beg to disagree with your assertion that govt have been ‘’vigilant’’ in their efforts at eradicating poverty over the last 30yrs. As a matter of fact, government has been the problem rather than solution. You cannot continue to give a sick man the same dose of medicine that has not cured him after 30yrs. The various attempts by govt to stamp out poverty have been political, hurriedly thought-out, reactionary and unsustainable hence they yielded no positive results. The question govt and citizens must begin to ask is what has the western world done differently that Nigeria isn't doing? Over the years Nig...