The federal government has been lauded for coming up with the Treasury Single Account (TSA) and the Ease of Doing Business (EODB) initiative.
A university lecturer, Prof. Aja Akpuru Aja, who gave the thumbs up, said the initiatives have been achieving the desired results since APC government came up with the initiatives.
Akpuru-Aja, a formal Directing Staff in the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, gave the commendation while discussing a paper titled: “Building Transformative Leadership for Nigeria” at The Big Idea Podium lecture series.
The lecture series, which was held in Enugu yesterday, was organised by the African Heritage Institution (Afri-Heritrage), an international socio-economic and political analytical institution.
Akpuru-Aja, who is currently with the International Relations and Political Science Department of Abia State University, said TSA had helped the government and country to check multiple infractions into the country’s finances.
“I must laud the vision and dexterity of the present administration to implement the TSA initiative, which had brought sanity and discipline in the nation’s finances.
“For now, un-co-ordinated financial withdrawals and running of government finances without discipline and accountability had stopped. People are now more responsible financially,” he said.
According to him, with the TSA the country had been able to make substantial saves over time and can easily trace its monies.
On the Ease of Doing Business (EODB), Akpuru-Aja said the initiative had improved the country’s competitiveness to doing business as well as opened the country up for business by relaxing all bottlenecks impending businesses.
“The present government is moving with a vision to get things right and correct negative ways of doing business especially as it concerns government service agencies and commissions.
“I believe we are making progress in the right direction, which needed to be sustained.”
Earlier, Dr Otive Igbuzor, Executive Director, African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD), Abuja, Dr Otie Igbuzor, in a lecture noted that “leadership is the pivotal point of every organisation, society or nation.”
Igbuzor, who delivered the key lecture themed: “Building Transformative Leadership for Nigeria,” said the country was suffering from quality leadership void.
“True leaders are not selfish and have no interest in themselves or position but committed to influencing others for the common good. A transformative leader must be a change agent, one who develops capacity and trust on others as well as create an enabling environment to make a change for the common good,” he said.
In an address, the Executive Director of Afri-Heritage, Prof. Ufo Okeke-Uzodike, called for a change in leadership structure and philosophy.
