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Abiodun Woos Foreign Investors, Says Ogun Is Investment Friendly

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November 19, 2023
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Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has called on foreign businesses to make the state, especially the Special Economic Processing Zone, their destination of choice while considering investing in Nigeria.

Abiodun, made the call while speaking as guest on CNBC Africa at the weekend on the sidelines of the Intra-African Trade Fair, put together by Afreximbank, in Cairo, Egypt.

He said Ogun State has put everything in place to host any business venture.

According to Abiodun, Ogun State has the required infrastructure, including accessibility, access to power, and a youthful and educated population to make it investor-friendly.

He said : “We like to refer to ourselves as the Gateway State. We are the gateway to Nigeria’s prosperity.

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“We are the industrial capital of Nigeria. By all accounts, we have well over 5,000 industries.

“We are the number one in non-oil revenue in Nigeria because we have large mineral deposits, particularly limestone.

“That , explains why we have Lafarge, Dangote, and many other cement factories. The biggest cement factory in Nigeria is in Ogun State.

“Now, why are we here (Cairo)? We are here to attract more investors to our state, particularly as we pride ourselves as having the required infrastructure, be it road, rail, or air.

“We have a new airport, unarguably one of the best airports in Nigeria.

“Our airport is situated in our Special Economic Processing Zone. The zone is being supported by Afreximbank and being operated and constructed by a private sector player called Arise LLP.

“Today, we want people to know about the zone, to come and establish processing concerns and factories in that zone, referencing the 5,000 other industrial activities that exist in Ogun State.”

The governor listed some of the companies in the state to include Lafarge, Nestle, Cadbury, May&Baker, Unilever, and Olam Flours, among others.

He noted that companies coming to invest in the state would take advantage of its vast agro produce like rubber, cassava, which Ogun is the number one producer in the world, palm oil, cashew, cocoa, cotton, eggs and poultry.

“We are trying to attract investors to this processing zone, more so because we have gas, which allows them to access power.

“So, you are sure that your major cost of production, which could be power in most instances, is already mitigated.

“And I believe that we’ve managed to convince a lot of our listeners that Ogun State, the industrial capital of Nigeria, the education capital of Nigeria with reserve of youthful population is ready to receive you and as a government, we’ve provided a lot of reforms and policy initiatives to further increase our rating on the ease of doing business index,” he added.

Governor Abiodun also spoke on the significance of the African Quality Assurance Centre (AQAC), which has been established at the Special Economic Processing Zone, a development that he said, is bound to make Nigeria get value for her agro-produce.

He noted that Nigeria, before now, was sending her agro-produce meant for export to neighbouring countries like Ghana to be certified as fit-for-purpose.

But with AQAC in Ogun State, and within the agro-processing zone, Abiodun said agro-produce from Nigeria can now be certified fit-for-purpose in line with world best practices.

“And now, what they do in AQAC is, they don’t wait until you have grown or you have harvested.

“They intervene from the point of your inputs, from the point of how you have planted, from what type of fertilisers you have used, from what type of fertilisers you were meant to use to ensure that by the time they are stamping your agro-produce, it is certified fit-for-purpose.

“Hitherto, when goods will have to go to Ghana or any other country to be exported, it means that those agro-produce would probably have been undervalued.

“So, from now on, Nigeria can now export its agro-produce at the right value because its stamped fit-for-purpose from Nigeria,” he added.
(vitalnewsngr.com)

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