President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday co-opted leading business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, and four others into the economic management team.
The team which held its inaugural meeting at the Presidential Villa, has the following as the other new members of the team: Managing director of Access Bank, Mr. Aigboje Aig Imoukhuede; chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru and the president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria.
Jonathan had on Wenesday inaugurated a 15-member economic implementation team headed by the coordinating minister for the Economy and minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to oversee the effective implementation of decisions of the economic management team.
Other members are: ministers of Petroleum Resources, Power, Agriculture, Trade and Investment, Works and Health as well as the ministers of State for Finance and Health, the chief economic adviser to the President, the special adviser to the President (Monitoring and Evaluation), the director-general of the Budget Office, the director general of the Bureau of Public Enterprise and a deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
The Implementation Team is to meet every week, while the National Economic Management Team chaired by President Jonathan will meet every fortnight for the next three months, and once every month thereafter.
President then presided over deliberations on the presentation and measures to achieve macro-economic stability, as well as significant improvements in infrastructure, agriculture, manufacturing, education, health and housing in the shortest possible time.
Coordinating minister for the Economy and minister of Finance, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala made a presentation at yesterday’s meeting titled: “Transforming Nigeria/Creating Jobs – A Short to Medium Term Agenda”.
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