MINNA – Gov. Babngida Aliyu of Niger on Monday urged the three tiers of government and the private sector to invest in security to attract investors into the country.
Aliyu made the remark in Minna at the inauguration of the first Niger State Investment Climate Summit in Minna tagged “Building a Sustainable Business Environment in Niger State’’.
“We must invest in security to attract investors to our country.
“We will not be talking of investment when the environment is not secured; investment thrives in a secured environment,’’ he said.
He urged the Federal Government to summon the political will to tackle corruption in order to attract investors to make the country an economic hub of Africa.
“We must fight corruption and greed to create enabling environment for investors,’’ the governor said.
Aliyu decried a situation where the nation spends huge sums of money importing food items instead of wooing the companies abroad to come and establish in the country.
He said that government should embark on measures that would create employment and wealth for the people.
He called on investors to explore the enabling environment created by his administration to invest in the state. [eap_ad_1] Aliyu, however, called for more investment in the education sector, particularly the girl-child education.
Earlier, the Commissioner for Investment Commerce and Cooperatives, Alhaji Hassan Abdullahi, said government had created enabling business environment to boost private sector participation in the development of the state.
He said that some of the laws put in place by government to attract investors included Fiscal Responsibility Law, Public Procurement Law, Small and Medium Enterprises/Micro-Finance Agency Law and Commodity and Export Promotion Agency Law.
Other are Niger State Law Reform Commission, One Stop Investment Centre, Niger State Geographic Information System and Niger State Industrial Park Development Agency. (NAN)
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