SENATOR Adams Oshiomhole says government must intervene to stabilise the country’s currency, the naira, saying market forces cannot do such.
Oshiomhole, who spoke on the Senate floor during the screening of the CBN governor nominee Yemi Cardoso and four other deputies, called on the government to intervene to save the country’s currency.
“The challenge we deal with now is everybody seems to have submitted completely to the so-called market forces and rely on the invisible eyes of Adams Smith to regulate and determine the value of the naira,” he said Tuesday.
“It is now clear, after Babangida started the devaluation, that the market forces can never stabilise the naira. The state must intervene.”
The former Edo State governor wondered how the manufacturing sector of the nation’s economy would grow when the interest rate is on the high side.
“Interest rate cannot be at 20 or 25 per cent and you are expecting the manufacturing sector with investments that require long-term gestation period to grow,” Oshiomhole added.
“Even if you are a drug dealer. You would find that those dealing with drugs in Latin America would be more competitive.”
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