The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has faulted government agencies for working at cross purposes, which he said is affecting the ease of doing business.
NECA’s Director-General Adewale Smatt-Oyerinde, who spoke on Tuesday when he was featured on a special Independence Day programme by Channels Television, also called on the Federal Government to work on resolving such issues so that businesses can flourish.
According to him, “Sometimes, regulators’ roles are overlapping. This regulator will say, ‘This is my role. I have given you the certificate to do this.’ Another regulator will come and say, ‘Look, that certificate does not apply to us’ and that leaves the business in the middle.”
“You have one agency of the government promoting trade and another agency also creating bottlenecks to job creation. You have one agency of government promoting trade and you have another agency of government creating bottlenecks to trade.
“So, if we do not deal with those inherent contradictions, we will be probably going into a rigmarole,” the DG of the umbrella body for employers in the organized Private Sector of Nigeria said.
