The Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr. Benjamin Dikki, has called for more advocates of harmonious and peaceful co-existence in Nigeria as the country grapples with current security challenges.
Receiving the executive members of an Abuja based socio-cultural club, Just Friends Club of Nigeria, led by its President, Mr. Jerome Green-Amakwe, who paid him a courtesy visit, the Director General lamented the unprecedented crisis and mayhem which were engulfing the country on a daily basis and called all citizens to join the concerted efforts to check the menace.
He commended the club’s value for love and harmony and urged other clubs in the country to imbibe such values.
On the Bureau’s mandate, the DG recalled that it had carried out reforms in the various sectors of the economy among them telecoms, pensions, ports and the power sector.
According to him, these reforms have impacted positively on the Nigerian economy and the citizenry, noting that before the reforms in the telecoms sector, there were only 450,000 telephone lines in the country “but now there are over 126million GSM users in Nigeria.” He added that enormous transformation has also taken place in the banking sector after liberalisation that “nobody goes to the bank again with a mat to sleep to wait for payment”.
On the reform at the ports, Dikki noted that it had brought about massive infrastructural development and equipment upgrade as well as huge revenue returns to the government besides improving efficiency.
He thanked the Club for nominating him as the inaugural speaker at the Just Friends Club of Nigeria Annual Lecture series which holds June in Abuja.
Earlier, the President of the Club, Mr. J.N. Green-Amakwe commended the Bureau for its transparency and diligence in the discharge of its duties.
He said that BPE has not been found wanting in the discharge of its responsibilities “and that is why we considered BPE worthy of being the first corporate body which we will pay a courtesy visit and to partner with in moving the country forward”.
