Chu Okongwu

Sonny Chu Okongwu (23 September 1934 – 12 January 2022) was a Nigerian economist and politician who was the Minister of National Planning (1985–1986), and then Minister of Finance (1986–1990) during the Babangida administration. Quotes My health is as good as it can be at my age. I still manage to do three miles of walk every day; that is four days a week and, from head to toe, there are usual old age problems, but I think I am happy to be around. I have no plans of wasting my time on chonyi, chonyi, chonyi... every minute of my God's given time on earth. I have been usefully engaged in something productive. That came step by step. With the contact I was making, ideological contacts, political contacts, recharging your intellect was there. It was clear that I wanted to improve my technical and academic background. The disarray in society has been magnified and so, in simple terms, we have come to a stage where gangsters have been brought to the centre-stage of the political and social arena and mediocrity and all sorts of things are enthroned rather than excellence, hard work and productive endeavour. "There are policies that you use to encourage domestic production. We have to look inwards to do things that are good for the economic or social body but we do the wrong things for our socioeconomic We require sound policies to focus on production, fix ideas. Let us take this current issue of re-arranging the social framework of Nigeria; let us have a focus, so that we can be oriented towards that focus. If the focus is not towards productive endeavour, then we have The naira will be allowed to find its true value. But the modalities, the extent, the timing -- they have to be determined. External links Category:1934 births Category:2022 deaths Category:Economists from Nigeria Category:Politicians from Nigeria