Maritime Stakeholders Differ Over FG's Announcement Of Growth In GDP

Harboursandport.com: Lagos -Maritime stakeholders have expressed divergent views over the announcement of a 4.08 per cent growth of the nation’s Gross Domestic Products, GDP.

While an export consultant and Chief Executive Officer, CEO of Multimix Export Academy, Dr. Obiora Madu, expressed scepticism over the GDP growth, he question the rationale behind the circulation from which the present figure is arrived at.

According to him, “I do not know how they circulate this GDP; if you tell anybody in the street that the GDP of the country has improved I do not know what their response will be because it is not reflecting.

I do not know what the GDP circulation is all about, so if we were talking about export figures or something, if you could not find it locally you can find it internationally. But this GDP is subject to whatever we say and we have the habit of working on everything, I really do not want to speak on it because I do not understand it.

However, a barge operator and Managing Director of Nurwags Integrated Services Limited, Nura Wagani, said it is a well come development. Wagani asked the federal government to put in place the right policies to sustain the growth.

He said there is need to focus more on export which is presently on the rise to reduce the huge amount spent on importation.