Institute of Planning tasks government on workable policies

The Institute of Planning, Nigeria, (IPN) has said Nigeria needs more workable policies to boost growth and development across the country.

The President of the institute, Dr McCarthy Ijiebor, in a statement was quoted as saying this after a two-day conference held in Lagos, themed: ‘Nigeria’s post-pandemic economy and business development: The way forward for planners at national and sub-national level.”

The institute commended some state and local government institutions for deploying strategic planning tools and human resources to define their desired future as well as implementing workable plans, adding that more of such was needed at the national level.

According to the institute, the government needed to be up and doing in formulating policies and implementing them, stressing that the approach to be adopted should be bottom-up, where major policy inputs emanate from the populace whom the intending policies were meant to serve.

The President of the institute harped on the need for planners at the various cadres of the nation’s national and subnational institutions to see their vocation as pivotal to the success of Nigeria’s programme.

In his keynote address, Prof Richard Mayungbe said, “The place of covid-19 in this complex situation created a tough position in achieving seamless service delivery, customer satisfaction and by extension, adequate revenue for reward and recognition in most businesses.”