40 years after SAP: Experts, CSOs fault privatisation of Govt services
Some of those who spoke at the event include the Founding Executive Director, African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development (Centre LSD), Dr Otive Igbuzor; Political economist, Professor Adebayo Olukoshi; lawyer and pro-democracy activist, Ayo Obe; Head of Programmes and Policy, ActionAid Nigeria, Celestine Okwudili Odo, who represented the Country Director, Andrew Mamedu; International development expert, Dr Hussaini Abdu; and Director, Centre for Development, CITAD, Dauda Garuba.
Say Nigeria still chasing wrong cure By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA: Forty years after the Federal Government embraced the International Monetary Fund IMF induced Structural Adjustment Programme SAP, leading economists, civil society leaders and development experts have faulted the continued wholesale privatisation of government services under the reform, insisting that the country is still chasing the wrong cure for its economic troubles.
The verdict was delivered on Thursday at a high-level conference on “Forty Years of Structural Adjustment Programme SAP in Nigeria: History, Impact and the Way Forward,” held in Abuja.
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