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| Segun Runsewe, DG NCAC |
A call has gone out to the
newly-appointed Director-Generals in the Federal Ministry of
Information and Culture to see their appointments as a veritable
opportunity to reposition the ailing culture and tourism sector of
the country’s economy.
Making the appeal in separate
congratulatory messages to Mr. Folorunsho Folarin-Coker of the
Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) and Otunba Olusegun
Runsewe at the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC),
Wednesday, the umbrella body of travel and tourism writers, the
Association of Nigerian Journalists and Writers of Tourism (ANJET),
urged them to also consider their appointments as ‘a call to
national service’ with a view to winning back stakeholders’
confidence in the industry.
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| Folarin-Coker, NTDC DG |
According to ANJET, which commended
the federal government for appointing professionals to man the
affairs of the agencies, the need to restructure and reposition the
culture and tourism industry as well as regain waning industry
practitioners’ belief, had become imperative on account of the
agencies having been poorly managed.
“For us at the Association of
Nigerian Journalists and Writers of Tourism (ANJET), we reiterate
that your appointment could not have come at a better time than now,
as we have consistently harped on the need for the federal government
to appoint a professional to man the affairs of the corporation.
“We, therefore, use this medium to
express our confidence in your ability to change the deplorable state
of the NTDC and by extension, the Nigeria tourism against the
backdrop of your enviable records achieved as former Commissioner for
Tourism in Lagos State.
“We, however, charge you as a major
stakeholder in the Nigerian tourism sector, not to see this
achievement merely as a political appointment, but instead an
opportunity to restructure Nigeria tourism with a view to recapturing
investors’ confidence, as well as providing a viable playing field
for indigenous players in the industry,” the writers charged
Folarin-Coker.
ANJET, which is a tourism association
under the Federation of Tourism Associations of Nigeria (FTAN),
similarly charged Runsewe, ‘‘to be circumspect, focused and
committed to delivering on the mandate of your parastatal with the
unalloyed personal sacrifices, commitment and passion for which you
are known and had handled every national assignment entrusted to you
in time past.’’
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