Contending Issues in the Niger Delta Crisis of Nigeria - Journal of ...

Olawale Olaopa, Ibikunle Ogundari, Mike Awoleye, and Willie Siyanbola
(vi)
Mounting a programme to promote public awareness of the
value of privatization to the economy so as to contribute to the
building up of a broad-based consensus;
(vii) Building marketing up front in each privatization operation in
order to stimulate potential interest among investors and thus to
enhance the value of the public enterprise to be privatized;
remembering that, apart from “small privatizations” no two
privatizations are the same;
(viii) Promoting popular participation in the privatization process
through the allocation of a proportion of corporate shares to small
investors (“popular capitalism”) or through mass privatization;
(ix) Addressing the concerns of employees by paying particular
attention to their acquired rights, compensation measures for
retrenched workers and to employment protection and job creation
measures;
(x)
Promoting employee participation in the privatization process
through the allocation of a proportion of corporate shares, as
reflected in the special provision of 10% equity to employees of the
privatized entity;
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