In order to accelerate growth, the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, stressed the importance of re-engineering and re-strategizing North issues on Wednesday.
When the Coalition of Northern States’ Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (CONSCCIMA), led by its President Malam Dalhatu Abubakar, met with Shettima at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, he made this statement.
“We have to go back to the drawing board, re-assess the situation in the North, and come up with strong platforms of re-engineering our society,” he stated.
To put the area in a position for rapid development, the North must immediately start re-strategizing and re-engineering the area.
The majority of the issues the CONSCCIMA President has brought up are very painful since they affect the lives and well-being of our people.
Shetima applauded the leadership of CONSCCIMA for its dedication to the development of the North through numerous industrial initiatives that can successfully result in development through partnership with the Federal Government.
He noted that for economic growth to occur, a society must foster both peace and stability.
According to the vice president, neither peace nor growth are possible without the other.
Shettima praised President Bola Tinubu as a forward-thinking, devoted democrat for his zeal for pursuing and achieving development by tackling the problems posed by insecurity in the North.
The Pulaku project, in particular, in the North-West, he continued. In order to address the issues in the North-West, the Pulaku initiative offers a solid option.
It’s a solution designed to deal with the problems of banditry, kidnapping, and the North-West predicament, which cannot be separated from the problem of governance.
What we are harvesting in the North-West is directly impacted by poor governance.
In an earlier statement, Abubakar said that the group was ready to work with the federal government in cooperation to revive the northern economy.
The restoration of moribound sectors and the establishment of new ones were some of the initiatives he cited as potential catalysts for the North’s economy.
Additionally, he emphasised the importance of setting up modular refineries, pharmaceutical businesses, Lake Chad recharge, and the completion of Mambila Power and other power projects. (NAN)
