Lawrence Egede descends into media industrial caution for a ventilated room development of industries in Ebonyi State under the watch of Governor Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru (FON).
Read him: People who are looking for recognition from Governor Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, those who are ambitious about personal relevance by flattery, trying to preempt and project answers to his responsibilities not yet carried out should not distract him at this early stage.
He has a heavy load of public businesses to do, not political romance and allure, showing pictures of pretence, adoration and hungry loyalty this time.
I am not using this channel of approach to place myself first before him either. I can see him in a heavy shoe of big tasks in the new regime. That is why I am saying what should be our attitude towards him this time.
I can stay far away and advise anybody, suggest a way forward, alert people, correct them if for any reason they go wrong and commend them when they do the right thing, without bias.
The world around us today demands a very wide open door, open window and open curtain system of business regime.
That is if you can invest, if you can help, if you can stay and develop the economy with us together, the benefits will also get to Dick and Harry.
We should learn how to bring in people who can do business with us and accommodate them, instead of going out to look for who will harbor us, milk us and throw us out carelessly.
Neither do we need people who will come and deceive us with cunning flamboyance and tap our resources dry, and just vamoose from us to perish in our ignorance and indolence.
Ignorance and indolence made some people in Nigeria allow smatter and industrious fellows to invest resources in their land but at last, struggle to own back their places by the force of the law in the history of violence.
At this point, the law and the history of ownership will suffer at the hands of violence.
And once it happens wrongly in the end, the entire situation will interpret lawlessness into the affairs built over time.
We have got only two things to forge ahead in this world and these dual-purpose issues are:- the government and also the economy, which have got only one thing called productive industry, for everyone who can develop a life for a meaningful life.
The reason government is established is for security reasons, based on the welfare of the people and to maintain the rule of law in the land where individuals do business.
The present regime in Ebonyi State has started well with the administrative security system strategy, which is number one.
The next thing should be to woo big business tycoons, to invest their resources into the economy of Ebonyi State.
I don't mean Agricultural development, which the State has originally been born right from time into the business.
I should even advocate that if there are arable land spaces owned by the government, they should be given to people to do their subsistence farming. It will help to lessen the burden placed on the finances of the government.
Ebonyi State has already got the enabling environment for a further viable development of the State, while people living in the place will benefit more from the sense.
There should be maximum focus on industrial matters of how to move the State forward, in the domestic business light.
This is not the Era of luxury and comfort without sacrifices for the mean survival of the State, with what it takes to attract Industrial attention.
Ebonyi State already has Airport and Industrial clusters, which need improvement and also require adequate attention.
In the case of the Airport, we need to invite the domestic operational Airlines, the Federal Aviation Ministry, the Air route Experts and Security Agencies and know how to activate public Air travels to and from Ebonyi State. Without outside business partners' interest, the Airport will become idle for nothing. Such big investment shouldn't be lavished, on sheer politics of non-classified public advertisement decoration.
We need conscious investors to activate any idle business, do the correct thing, draw federal attention closer and tell them what we want in our place. Waiting for them to come and do anything better for us is a waste of time. Even if the federal did the approval to build the Airport, they invested nothing and can't activate the Airport for Ebonyi State.
All mathematics of solution must be worked out, by every Ministry to improve the internal economic strength of the State, with industrial research work to enable big investors to come and harness the potentials within.
The time has come when the issue of politics should be kept aside. No waste of time with political this or that in the present nascent dispensation.
If we don't know what can make a State prosper in the business of viable development and growth in the industry, then it is impossible to do the needful.
I can see congratulations here and there on news platforms, in appreciation for appointments to political positions in Ebonyi State government. This time it shouldn't be taken as a gift for parading oneself as a big man or woman. It should be for very serious business development that will reduce idleness in the State. Gone are the days when political appointments are just for merriment and happiness.
Nigeria is in a precarious state of economic quagmire and it is unfortunate, that poverty hasn't given many homes a moment of respite, despite all the riches of Nigeria stolen by corruption.
Ebonyi State should be up and doing quickly and very fast too. All activities these days boil down to business, no matter who you are and what you do for a living and to go forward.
Criminal tendencies are rife everywhere, and the world is devising means to effect a lot of changes in respect of what is going on.
Politics is no more important, as far as people are concerned about survival strategies, to live honestly and apolitically strong enough to achieve their goals.
Tomorrow has no bearing, except it is prepared for any eventuality from today and onward, to the far and near future. Ebonyi State should continue to build from today.
We served humanity in utmost honesty and the world became dishonest to us. We earned big losses being sincere, but regret nothing now in having goodwill with the joy of justified living.
Those of us who have got the experience of business and life, also know what is going on now all over the world, because of sufferings, difficulties and hardships in human societies.
We are shouting loud and clear that the world is no more a bed of roses. There are thorns in the flesh of human beings all over the world, and it is no joke trying to live within income.
Of recent I learnt that one of the richest persons in the globe BILL GATE is visiting Nigeria.
It was also said that one of the richest persons in black Africa DANGOTE will bring him to the country. To me, I don't know if it is necessary where no benefits will come to Nigeria from the visitor, since they only invest in tragedies against humanity.
The developing world is under siege by the advanced world in industry, holding downcast the economies of the undersized and the underdeveloped world not to survive even one inch.
We can see the speed with which the Technologically advanced nations, have been disorganizing smaller nations that are mainly consumers of foreign goods and services.
In Nigeria, almost everything is imported for domestic use and it hasn't been easy coping up.
Many official rogues are on the trail at every moment, over the internal matters of finances in the domestic economies of the nation, beating it black and blue from all corners that carry out capital-intensive ventures.
Everywhere in Nigeria should wake up from political slumber now, and face the realities that are staring us in the face.
That's why I am saying that Ebonyi State should open business doors, windows and curtains very wide for honest people to enter securely and invest their resources with us
Let me stop here meantime because it said that Rome is not built in a day and till further notice let's move progressively ahead.
To God is the glory forever.
Lawrence Egede is our Guest Writer and Phoenix Public Analyst.
