Revive Moribund Industries, Nigerian Airways -- Edo Rep Calls On Buhari

President Buhari

The member of the House of Representatives from Edo state, Chief Joe Edionwele has called on President Buhari, as a matter of urgent attention, revive the moribund industries in the country, especially the railways, Nigerian air ways and textile.

Edionwele made this call yesterday while speaking to journalists in Abuja, saying that  pertinent questions regarding what went wrong in the past that brought the country to its current predicament must be asked.

He deplored the current state of affairs in the country as being handled by President Muhammadu Buhari and All Progressive Congress (APC), urging the Presidency to immediately swing into action and remedy some of the things that require urgent and decisive actions.


‎He said: "We had textile mill and Peugeot automobile Assembly in Kaduna, steel in Aladja and Itakpe in Kogi and coal mine in Enugu. We need a leader that will ask what went wrong and make sure that they are reactivated. That is the functional leader we need now.

 If  all these industries are reactivated, the issue of unemployment would have been a thing of the past and we would have addressed the issue of insecurity and insurgence and the economy would have greatly improved.

"We used to have settlement; rice farms, poultries, fisheries and diaries production organized by federal government across the state. This are what will count for any leader not who is senate leader or who is the senate leader is or who is the house leader".

"We need a leader that will ensure job security. One of the major problems causing corruption in the civil service is lack of job security. In these days, civil servant know when they are employed and how they are going to end. They are paid as at when due their tenure was guaranteed and their pension assured that is the change we need now .  Until our leaders address that issue, we would be running in circles. It would be a case of one step forward two step backward", he added.

Edionwele who represents Esan west, Esan Central and Igueben Federal constituencies in the lower chamber of the National Assembly, warned that the Nigeria does not need a sectional or provisional leader at this critical point in our nation's history.

Rather, he said, the country needs a functional leader that will right the wrongs of the past.


He stated: "The leader the country needs now is not a provisional leader. The nation needs a functional leader. We need a leader that will ask question of yester years that we used to have groundnut pyramid and cotton in the North, cocoa in the West, Rubber and palm oil in the Eastern part of the country .

"We need a leader who will ask what went wrong and offer solution. A functional leader that will remember that we used to have Nigeria Airways, Nigeria railways, Nigeria boat yard or water ways".

"A leader that will ask where are they, what went wrong and see how he can reactivate the transport systems. ‎We need a leader that will remember that we used to refine oil in Nigeria, what happened to the refineries and reactivate them".