Okonjo-Iweala as economic reformer

Elombah.com

27 August 2011

Okonjo-Iweala as economic reformer       

According to The Independent (UK), even as a Director of the World Bank and Head of the Makeda Fund, “she works for change in all of Africa,” and that’s one of the fundamental reasons “why the continent should listen to her” in respect of proffering solutions to its sundry socio-economic problems.

With the knowledge of the hindsight that Nigeria is probably facing one of its most challenging moments in history vis-à-vis overwhelming socio-political and economic problems, and as a patriotic Nigerian cum recognised global citizen Okonjo-Iweala is, she, true to her promise, returned recently to do just that.

Such problematic concerns in the economy include rising youth unemployment that has led to continued civil disobedience, lawlessness and violent attacks on innocent people; youth restiveness in the Niger Delta region with its concomitant kidnappings; erratic power supply that has crumbled several businesses; free fall in quality of graduates from the nation’s institutions of learning; and imposing hospitals lacking necessary medical equipment.