President Bola Tinubu yesterday launched the Renewed Hope Enterprise Bridge Initiative. The platform is aimed at creating a structured and sustained channel of engagement between the Federal Government and entrepreneurs.
According to Tinubu, while there has been a quiet disconnect between policymakers and those who must navigate the policies daily, the initiative aims to address the gap.
The initiative, unveiled alongside its official website at the State House Conference Centre in Abuja, is designed to bridge the long-standing gap between policymakers and business owners by ensuring that government decisions are shaped by the lived realities of entrepreneurs.
Launched the initiative and its website at the State House Conference Centre, the President, represented by his Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila, said his administration recognises the disconnect that has often existed between those who formulate policies and those who must operate within their consequences daily.
He said: “One side works with framework and projections, the other works with immediacy and risk. “Bringing both into the same room is not symbolic; it is necessary. “If a policy is to be useful, it must be informed by lived experience. And if an enterprise is to thrive, it must be supported by a system that understands it.”
Tinubu said no government could design an effective response from a distance if it is really determined to get it right. He said: “Therefore, we must listen carefully, interrogate honestly and respond deliberately. You cannot treat what you have not properly diagnosed. “And you cannot diagnose without listening.
Across this country, business operates under conditions that would test even the most established system elsewhere. “Yet, you persist; you build; you employ; you adapt. That contribution is not lost on us. At the same time, we are conscious that a policy must do more than exist on paper.
It must translate into real improvement in how businesses start, grow, and compete. That is why today matters.” The President commended Nigerian entrepreneurs for their role in keeping the nation’s economy moving, often under difficult circumstances, even as he assured that his administration is not indifferent to their realities.
