INTERVIEW: What Nigerians should expect from me — Akin Alabi

Akin Alabi, a businessman and the owner of Nairabet, was recently elected into the House of Representatives from Egbeda Federal Constituency, Oyo State. He sat with PREMIUM TIMES in Abuja last week for his first interview since inauguration. The interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and space.

The reason is because I believe that if we talk about job creation, most people are not employed by the government. There is a limit to which government can employ people. First, business names have to be free, they need to be done online, and ready in less than 24 hours. I registered a business in Rwanda, I registered businesses in other places online in 24 hours.

Then for constituency outreach, we are talking about personally empowering small business owners in different ways. This includes consistent training that I have been doing for years in my personal capacity. Training, teaching them business concepts, business techniques, marketing lessons which we have seen testimonies already.

Now you know some of the ways I want to bring my business acumen into public service as a federal lawmaker. They give them money, housing, basic things to lift them out of poverty. Because President Buhari seems to be doing this, that is why people portray him as anti-business. He is not anti-business in any way.

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