The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) has expressed the group’s supports for the ongoing reforms in the banking sector.
Speaking in Abuja at the 15th National Economic Summit (NES 15), Frank Nweke (Jnr), director general, NESG endorsed reforms going on in other areas including health and education and also justified the continuous staging of the summit in the last 15 years.
He said Goodluck Jonathan, the vice president has directed that a joint memo be presented by the National Planning Commission and the NESG to the Federal Executive Council and the National Economic Council after the summit as a way of making the output government-owned and implemented.
Prof. Doyin Salami, chairman of the organizing committee of the NESG Organising Committee expressed dismay that Nigerians in Diaspora have turned down invitations by the NESG on several occasions to participate in the group’s annual summit which brings together public and private sector experts and executive.
“We decided to leave out foreign speakers this year in order to allow local speakers tell us what we can specifically do to improve our economy. A lot of Nigerians in the diaspora are doing brilliantly well in other countries. They have distinguished themselves in the areas of science and technology, health, and others to come and make presentations at the summit but they have not responded.”
He said on each occasion they were invited, they ask that the federal government guarantee their safety, which NESG could not provide, and as such they refused to honour the invitations to contribute to the growth of the nation.