Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has posited that ethnicity is one of the major factors that are responsible for the slow pace of development in Nigeria.
According to the Minister of Transportation, ethnicity has plagued the country of development as some key decisions that needed to be made have been made due to ethnicity and the places the development project was cited did not help matters.
He called for the shunning and expulsion of the ties with ethnicity among Nigerians at the expense of the development of Nigeria.
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Amaechi made his submission as a guest lecturer at the Annual Public Lecture of the Department of Economics at the University of Lagos,
He said, ”It’s a key element in driving the development of economies all over the world and it creates possibilities for other sectors; therefore, you cannot even create employment if you don’t create logistics.
“Nigerians are too ethnically conscious. You think first of your ethnicity before you think as a Nigerian.
”Ethnicity is putting pressure on the economics of railway construction. What you hear is, ‘I am a Yoruba man, I am a Hausa man, I am an Igbo man.”
“Railway is fuelled by economic activities, it is not fuelled by tribes.
“Ethnicity isn’t the way to go. Those who fan the embers of ethnicity are those who were benefitting from the government in the past, but are no longer benefitting from the government.” he added.
Source: NaijaOnPoint.com
