Why Businesses Are Dying In Nigeria—Bishop Arogundade

By Niyi Olutunde, Akure

The Catholic Bishop of Ondo Diocese, Most Rev. Jude Arogundade has frowned at the way how businesses are dying in Nigeria saying “the system that we run in this country is too corrupt”.

Arogundade, who said this at the commissioning of a private vegetable oil company, ‘Pramot Vegetable Oil’ in Akure, the Ondo state capital at the weekend said, “Businesses don’t work in Nigeria anymore not because Nigeria is not know how to do business but because many Nigerians kills business.”

According to him businesses are dying in Nigeria because there was no confidence in the system being run saying “the system that we run in Nigeria is too corrupt”.

He said, “many economic policies that are being operated in this country they are very good one that suppose to raise our country up but it because is being run by bad people. When you put bad people to run good policies they will destroy the policy.

“We need good people to build this nation, we must begin to love this country, we must have a good country that can be proud of.”

The cleric, while charging those that will be working at the vegetable oil company to join hands and support the aims and objectives of establishing the company said, “it is your duty with all fairness to build it up and make it bigger for a greater height.

“But when we begins to do things to bring it down then you’re causing a lot of problem for yourself because there is no how you will bring someone down that you too will not go down.

“But if you bring it up and make it great, you too will be great and go up. So I want to encourage everyone of us to do this business in a way that will edify us, the owner, the state and Nigeria as a whole.

“This place, is not that the owner has all the money in this world, but he has started something for the good people of Ondo state and Nigeria as a whole because we will all benefit from it. I know that this is just a foundation, very soon we want to see more of it in Akoko land.”

Mr. Tony Aburumaku, the Managing Director of the company while speaking on the aims and objectives of establishing the vegetable oil company in Akure said, “if the country will be better, all hands must be on deck.”

Aburumaku said, “there is no need for our women to travel down to far places to get vegetable oil again but you should rather come down to Akure and we are going to sell cheaper.

“This is an opportunity for you women that do travel down to Lagos and others to buy vegetable oil that there is no need for you again. Mind you, there is no where in this Southwest region that you can find this new business company but in Akure, Ondo state.”