A civil society organisation, Competent Governance for Accountability and Civic Trust, has commended the fresh air in the leadership of acting Director General and Chief Trade Negotiator of the Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiations (NOTN), Mr. Victor Liman.
National coordinator of the CSO, Amb Adebayo Omoba, while speaking at the civil society roundtable at the ICC Abuja over the weekend, said the acting DG’s vast experience as an adjunct consultant with UNESCO-BREDA Dakar, Senegal as well as his exposure as CEO/founder of Doditel Financial Services, UK will help to reposition NOTN in achieving its set objectives.
Omoba said Mr. Victor Liman has been an expert advisor on trade, technology and regulations law in the UK with years of uninterrupted service to the Nigerian Trade Negotiations Office, having held different positions in the agency prior to his current acting capacity as DG of the organisation.
He said as the then Director of Administration and Finance, Mr Liman coordinated the core values and functions of NOTN, including the agency’s institutional framework for Nigeria’s trade policy infrastructure; preparing and updating the country’s trade policies in changing global economic landscape and providing efficient and reliable trade background services for Nigeria in order to enhance the growth of the industrial, commercial and administrative sectors of the economy.
“NOTN requires someone with the requisite exposure, network and experience to turn around the fortunes of the nation’s foremost trade negotiating agency, which the present leadership is demonstrating with pedigree to place the agency in its state of accomplishment.
“We, therefore, implore all relevant stakeholders to support the transformational drive in line with the core values and mission of the acting DG as the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is geared towards diversifying and growing the economy to sustain the revenue base of the nation’s pressing needs,” Omoba said.