Leadership observer and serial researcher, Prince Okedele Timothy Olusegun, MD/CEO, Prince Ade’s Oke International Ventures has vowed to bring quantum foreign investors into Nigeria based on the will of the government.
The Osun state, Iragbiji born development practitioner who is also the Osun chapter chair of the Nigerian Association of Small Scale Industrialists, NASSI, declared this yesterday on a chat with NewsDirect in Osogbo.
According to him, the investors are keen for the Green Energy, Environment, Agro and Health sectors, stressing that they will ensure clean and sustainable energy, all-year-round food production and solution to critical health challenges respectively.
“These investors are ready with adequate funds to undertake the green projects in their areas of interest.
“They are tested technologists from India, Singapore, Russia, Germany, United Kingdom, USA ,China, South Korea, etc whose inputs will result in the much awaited economic panacea critical to our national growth,” Okedele stated.
Delighted, he further expressed confidence in the person of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu whom he referred to as an icon of determination that has come to end retrogression or economic stagnancy.
“As a patriot, I have always pursued ideas that will move Nigeria forward.
“My appeal to Mr. President is that the interests of private sector initiators should be duly considered by way of Intellectual Property Protection, IPP, so that more volunteers will put in their bests for their fatherland, particularly in the areas of Food, Health, Environment and Energy security, technology, even knowledge transfer – to generate New Entrepreneurship and Green Jobs opportunity for citizens of Nigeria. Utilising a one stop solution system, as being practiced especially in Singapore, Russia, India, China and South – Korea, etc which is attracting foreign investors, mass employment, Clean Environment: Food, Health & Energy security, massive industrialisation, enhanced productivity, economic expansion and equal wealth growth.
The need of the present Federal Government to create a revolution rooted in the values cannot be over emphasised .
Okedele averred that with these steps, Nigeria will leapfrog its production status and bade goodbye to economic precariousness.
“I have the needed innovative technologies, technologists with expertise and funding capability to execute green projects that include waste to energy plant projects.
“I equally have applicable methodology which would be sustainable towards achieving the aforementioned.
“I only need the will of the Government. I am talking of practical and not theory.
“I believe it is the collective responsibility of all patriots to build our nation to be at par with foreign developed contemporaries,” Okedele stated.
Okedele also urged State governors, universities, research institutes in the country to tap from the rich opportunity.