By Aherhoke Okoima
Yenagoa
Principal of New Generation Consulting Resources and Solutions LLC in the USA, Dr Njideka Kelley, has adduced reasons many Nigerians that have travelled abroad to study and acquired relevant qualifications have continued to resist clarion calls and repeated persuasions by the federal government for them to return home to contribute to the growth and development of the country.
Kelly, a Nigerian that has spent over 25 years abroad, spoke in response to discussions by panellists on the occasion of the just concluded Nigerian Content organised by NCMB in Yenagoa.
According to her, many patriotic Nigerians were eager and desirous to return to Home to impact on the country what they have learned and acquired in the foreign lands, but they were constrained by some militating factors.
She listed those factor to include poor power supply, because at this technologically driven era nobody that have been used to constant electricity aboard would be ready to come to experience the epileptic power supply which has continued to affect every sector of the economy.
While she applauded the Nigerian content act, she advised the federal government to create the enabling and conducive environment that would attract Nigerians in Diaspora who want to return home and further eradicate Nigerians that leave the country in drones under the guise of looking for greener pastures and until these malaise are addressed foreigners would continue to dominate the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.
Other stakeholders reiterated that poor infrastructures like political instability, defective education system, and inability of law enforcement agencies and immigration services that allowed foreigners without valid papers to enter the country even when they were not qualified, but “upon entering Nigeria with low certificates they become boss to Nigerians, especially in the oil and industry and construction firms.”