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The Catholic Church of Nigeria has kicked against the move by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government to sell off national oil assets in an attempt make up for the revenue decline in the face of a deepening recession.
The clamour for the sale of national assets by some members of the executive, National Assembly and key private sector players was completely wrong and do not represent the aspirations of Nigerians in any form, the executive director of Caritas International, an arm of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), Reverend Father Evaristus Bassey told Thisday newspaper.
“We seem to disagree with such calls for the sale of national assets; we cannot accept such extremist capitalist views. We cannot subscribe to such views because you cannot sell national assets to private hands,” Father Bassey said.
He contended that in most cases involving either privatisation or sale of national assets, “the process has often not been transparent, it’s like selling the national assets to a few hands.
“We have not developed to the extent where government will sell off national assets and interest to private individuals,” Bassey observed.
The clamour for the sale of national assets by some members of the executive, National Assembly and key private sector players was completely wrong and do not represent the aspirations of Nigerians in any form, the executive director of Caritas International, an arm of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), Reverend Father Evaristus Bassey told Thisday newspaper.
“We seem to disagree with such calls for the sale of national assets; we cannot accept such extremist capitalist views. We cannot subscribe to such views because you cannot sell national assets to private hands,” Father Bassey said.
He contended that in most cases involving either privatisation or sale of national assets, “the process has often not been transparent, it’s like selling the national assets to a few hands.
“We have not developed to the extent where government will sell off national assets and interest to private individuals,” Bassey observed.
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