The Executive Vice Chairman of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Prof. Mohammed Haruna, has tasked the federal government on human capacity development in all sectors of the economy for rapid industrialisation.
Prof. Haruna made this call during a chat with journalists after he received the national fellowship award from the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) at its just concluded national delegates’ conference held in Abuja.
The NASENI boss said the world is replete with examples of countries: Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and many others in Europe and America who are not endowed with natural resources like Nigeria, and yet they were able to transform their countries from underdevelopment status to top world class economies through aggressive human capacity development.
Haruna noted that most developed nations today rely basically on the knowledge and capacity of their workforce to cause things to happen and are leading others who depend solely on natural resources like most African countries, Nigeria inclusive.
He said: “it is human beings and their knowledge that will build the road, generate power, provide health services, education, manufacturing etc.”
According to him, Nigeria has stayed too long in this conundrum of taking to the world market always only primary products: crude oil, cocoa, tin, rubber and the products have continued to suffer price fluctuations or uncertainties because there are no value addition. He remarked: the time has come for the Nigeria workforce to add value to our primary products.
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