Why lack of adequate focus on qualities of who occupies Legislative seat is a minus for businesses in Nigeria – Adeola Yusuf speaks at unveiling of official flier for Platforms Africa Forum 2022 + roll call of speakers
Solution to business, enterprise and governance hurdles in Africa will top the agenda at Platforms Africa’s forthcoming continental forum in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital.
Team Lead of Platforms Africa, Adeola Yusuf, who said this at the unveiling of the official flier for the event in Lagos, maintained that the forum coming up on Monday, November 21, at Sheraton Hotel Lagos, is to assess legislation and business survival in Africa with the review of the Nigeria’s 9th National Assembly and agenda for the 10th Parliament.
Saying that lack of adequate focus by Africans on the choice of who occupies the Legislative seat is a minus, Yusuf said that legislation directly or indirectly makes or mars businesses and lives of the people.
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He said; “Democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. While a few countries in sub-saharan Africa are slipping back into military rule, more nations in the continent are deep-rooting trees of their democracies.
“Nigeria, the biggest democracy in Africa, is preparing for a regime change, and focus, as usual, is majorly on who will occupy seats in the executive arm of government while there is little or no interrogation about the quality of legislators whose bill passages and legislative instruments/agenda directly or indirectly impact businesses, and social enterprise.
“Platforms Africa, an e-community of intellectuals, policy moulders and opinion leaders in Africa, which has been having solution-driven discourse on Humanity and Africa Development, has deemed it necessary to have its first physical forum on Legislation In Africa. We want to review Nigeria’s 9th Parliament, which passed the *Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB)* and set agenda for the 10th National Assembly.
“We already have confirmation from across Africa speakers including Nigeria’s top constitutional lawyer, Barrister Jide Ologun; President, Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE), Sir Elliott Ibie, founder of health FM and a Nigerian medical doctor of over 30 years, Dr. Omotuyi Mebawondu; veteran journalist, Mr. Francis Kokutse from Ghana, and Mr. Bosire Ontiri Japheth from Nairobi, Kenya.
Others are Executive Secretary, Depots and Petroleum Products Marketers Association (DAPPMAN); Olufemi Adewole; Executive Secretary, Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), Clement Isong, and Deputy Director at Nigerian Army School of Finance and Administration, Lagos, Dr. Stella Ahunanya, and, Principal Partner at Lonadek Services (Nigeria and UK), Dr. Ibolola Amao.
“On daily basis, we receive more confirmation from speakers and we are hopeful that the list will continue to increase as preparation for the event is in top gear.
“Through our e-Discourse, we have achieved a lot in terms of education and key information dissemination. We are assured that this physical forum will also help tremendously in the creation and sustenance of circles of informed Africans for the overall good of the continent in particular and the humanity in general.”
