‘No law can fix a person ’s character’, ICRC DG Ewalefoh speaks at NES32

The Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Jobson Oseodion Ewalefoh, has cautioned in opposition to requires a overview of Nigeria’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) legal guidelines, arguing that efficient implementation, quite than rewriting current laws, is what the nation wants.

Ewalefoh made the remarks on the thirty second Nigerian Economic Summit (NES32), the place discussions on Nigeria’s PPP framework shifted to the necessity to overview the present legal guidelines.

Responding to the controversy, the ICRC chief challenged these advocating a rewrite to first look at how a lot of the present laws had been utilised.

“It is within the existing law that, under the direction of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, we have issued 13 guidelines in two years, developed a model concession agreement with the Federal Ministry of Justice, and secured presidential approval for project thresholds. And there is still much more the law allows us to do,” he stated.

He maintained that the effectiveness of any laws depended largely on the dedication and integrity of these accountable for implementing it.

According to him, deficiencies within the implementation of current legal guidelines shouldn’t routinely be blamed on the laws or used as justification for introducing new ones.

“A law is only as good as the people who carry it out. Where they fall short, the fault lies not in the law, and no rewrite will fix it,” Ewalefoh stated.

Emphasising the restrictions of laws in addressing points of non-public conduct and institutional duty, the ICRC director-general declared: “No law can fix a person’s character.”

He argued that Nigeria may obtain extra by totally deploying the provisions of its current PPP framework quite than specializing in rewriting the legal guidelines.