Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, the Senate leader, has said some saboteurs are consciously frustrating President Bola Tinubu’s efforts to revamp the economy and enhance living standard of Nigerians.
The lawmaker who represent Ekiti Central Senatorial District at the red carpet chamber said that the saboteurs were determined to thwart all the efforts being made by the current administration towards putting Nigeria on the path of economic progress.
He said this on Tuesday while addressing newsmen in his Iyin-Ekiti country home in Irepodun/Ifelodun local government area of Ekiti State.
Bamidele noted that the unscrupulous activities of saboteurs were undermining President Tinubu’s intervening efforts to revamp the country’s economy by manipulating the foreign exchange market (forex) for their personal gains.
The Senate leader said that the actions of these saboteurs was affecting the manufacturing and other productive sectors as they lack access to the forex needed to import raw materials, spare parts and machine.
Speaking further, Bamidele added that it was unfortunate that those who felt President Tinubu’s revolutionary economic policies would affect them adversely were working hard to sabotage them by all means to protect their selfish interests at the detriment of Nigerians.
He stated that the federal government, will, from next year, clamp down on the economic saboteurs as they are already on the watchlist, saying Nigeria would not succumb to the destructive tendency of the profiteers.
“This administration is also going after saboteurs especially those who are doing everything viciously possible to keep dollar so high against our naira and those who are making naira unavailable. It has gotten to a level where the federal government has to go after the so called saboteurs and punish them. All of these would happen in the new year.
“We know that in the long run, those who are trying to mop up naira and dollar in the street so that prices can go up and those who are speculating are definitely on the watch list of the government and at some point the government would go after them. But beyond that, there is hope on the horizon for Nigerians”.