So are you saying an individual controls the buying and selling in Nigeria? of course we can say that someone like dangote is superior in buys and sells but yet the economy is quite competitive the only thing is that the government, I mean each regime is not competitive in the right way but the wrong way, imagine if a president doesn't do more than the past president in the first tenure he gets impeachment and another leader continues with the good work that exactly is the definition of competitive economy
The market is open to everyone no doubt but the government gives certain private individuals an edge over others and this is part of what is slowing down our economic growth, Dangote for example is seriously aided by the government, government even give him certain grants and monopoly, he is always endorsed by every government, to the extent people feels his goods are the best because of heavy government support, the government even bring certain policies just to crash other entrepreneurs that wants to compete with him and this increases the continues relevance of Dangote, he controls the prices of most commodities because of heavy government support, so you see other young growing businesses won’t thrive much if the government intentionally support certain business due to political sentiments.
If our economy must grow rapidly then our government must give everyone a level playing ground devoid of political or tribal sentiments, you can’t favour Mr A more than Mr B and expect rapid growth, another thing that will help grow the Nigerian economy is what i call an enabling environment, Nigerians are hardworking and ready for any kind of business but the Nigerian government most at times cripple the efforts of entrepreneurs, common things like good roads, electricity, water etc ain’t providing to support the efforts of young growing entrepreneurs. I believe that if our government can come up with good schemes for entrepreneurs and also create and enabling environment and give every individual an equal trading chance things will actually turn around for good in our economic sphere.