The rich international businessman,
Richard Branson, has lambasted the crop of leaders we have in Nigeria
for their high level greed which, according to him, is killing big
brands wishing to do business with the government of the country, for
the growth of Nigeria’s economy.
Below is the revelations by Mr. Branson on his experience in Nigeria…
The chairman of Virgin Atlantic said:
“…we have virgin’s ill-fated footsteps by setting up a new airline in
Africa in conjunction with Nigerian government…the details of the doomed
attempts to crack the Nigerian market in the 2000s is better
imagined…we put …together a very good airline-the first airline in West
Africa that was ever IOSA/IATA operational safety audit accredited but
unfortunately it got tied down to the politics of the country…we led the
airlines for 11 years…
“We fought daily battle against
government agents who wanted to daily make fortune from us, politicians
who saw the government 49% as a meal to seek for all kinds of
favour…watchdogs (regulatory body) that didn’t know what to do and
persistently asking for bribes at any point…Nigeria people are generally
nice but the politicians are very insane…that may be irony because the
people make up the politicians…
“But those politicians are selfish…we
did make N3billion for the federal government of Nigeria during the
joint venture…realising that the government didn’t bring nothing to the
table/partnership except dubious debts by the previous carrier, Nigeria
Airways…The joint venture should have been the biggest African carrier
by now if the partnership was allowed to grow, but the politicians
KILLED it…Nigeria is a country we SHALL NEVER consider to doing business
again..” PLS SHARE
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