Policy Consistency Will Lead Nigeria To Progress — Okonjo-Iweala
The Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has advocated policy consistency in Nigeria regardless of change from one administration to another.
“Maintaining good economic and social policies; maintaining policy consistency and adding more reforms on top of that will lead us along the path of good progress that we all desire,” she told a room filled with lawyers at the Eko Hotel & Suites in Lagos on Sunday.
The globally respected developmental economist known for her African print Ankara wears and peculiar headgear tilted at a convenient angle delivered a keynote address titled, ‘A Social Contract For Nigeria’s Future’ at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Sunday.
The former Nigerian finance minister decried a phenomenon she labelled as the “not-in-my-administration syndrome” in governance which she said has been responsible for the not-so-good economic performance of Nigeria.
She said Nigeria needs a social contract and that all Nigerians regardless of political or other affiliations should agree on a social contract.
The developmental economist said certain sacrosanct policies should not be changed whenever Nigeria witnesses administration changes.
She said some of these policies should be made into law after being scrutinised by the public.
Okonjo-Iweala said maintaining policy consistency and adding more reforms on top of that will along the path of good governance that we all desire.
