Osinbajo, Gov Ahmed make case for Made-in-Nigeria products
The acting President, Professor Yemi Osibanjo and the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfattah Ahmed have called on Nigerians to patronise the Made-in-Nigeria products to boost the country’s economy.
The duo spoke at the opening of a three-day Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Clinic in Ilorin on Thursday.
Declaring the clinic open, the acting President, who was represented by his Special Adviser on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise, MSME, Mr. Tola Johnson, said it was pertinent for Nigerians to embrace the Made-in-Nigeria products in view of the current economic recession.
Osibanjo said the Federal Government was focusing on the growth of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises to grow local industries and improve the economy, explaining that the government was fixing challenges in the MSME to ease means of doing business in Nigeria.
He expressed the hope that the patronage of the products will facilitate the growth and development of the country and asked the unemployed graduates to key into MSME.
In his address, the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, who also advocated the patronage of the products, said it was one of the best ways out of the recession.
The governor, who took a tour of the exhibition ground at the clinic and purchased a Made-in-Nigeria Shoe, said his government had supported the MSME through various strategies.
Ahmed, who tasked commercial banks to support the MSMEs with long tenure loan on a single digit interest, called for the inclusion of entrepreneurial courses in the curriculum of primary, secondary and tertiary education in Nigeria.
Entrepreneurial studies, the governor explained, would empower the youth to contribute to the development of the country and reduce the spate of unemployment.
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