Were I running for president, I would deliver a Christmas Day speech in which I would set production quotas in several key sectors

Ayo Akinfe

We would have annual production targets in all these sectors:

[1] Steel - 10m tonnes
[2] Cocoa - 1.5m tonnes
[3] Natural gas - 100m cubic metres
[4] Rice - 10m tonnes
[5] Distributed electricity - 20,000MW
[6] Tarred roads - 200,000km
[7] Assembled automobiles - 500,000 units
[8] Bitumen - 10m tonnes
[9] Palm oil - 20m tonnes
[10] Clean energy - 5,000MW

Any minister who fails to meet his targets should be removed from office and face a statutory charge of economic sabotage, which should attract a minimum one year jail sentence. If we want Nigeria to advance, we must be prepared to force the pace of development.

“We cannot afford the tranquilising drug of gradualism.” - Dr Martin Luther King