Business-oriented regulatory agencies repositioned to grow MSMSEs -FG

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Business-oriented regulatory agencies repositioned to grow MSMSEs -FG

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The Nigerian government says business-oriented regulatory agencies have been re-positioned to become facilitators for the growth of Micro, Small, & Medium Scale Enterprises, MSMES.
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Nigeria’s Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, stated this during a visit to Aba, Abia State, where he participated in the First MSMES Clinics after the media launch in Abuja on Tuesday.He said President Muhammadu Buhari has always insisted on giving support to those who produce “the things that make us comfortable and harped on the need “to pay attention to MSMES.”Osinbajo said: “We will spend time to ensure that we give those who produce locally all the support that we can give, and that is why we are doing these clinics.”The Office of the Special Adviser on Economic Matters in the Presidency devised the idea of a Clinic to bridge the gap between medium and small scale businesses and government agencies such as Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC; Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON; National Agency for Food & Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC; Bank of Industry, BOI; Federal Inland Revenue Services, FIRS; Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC; and others.The Clinic is meant to bring together all those agencies in one spot and at appointed times across the country to attend to the needs, questions and requests of people doing business.It was launched on Tuesday by Prof. Osinbajo and the first Clinic outside Abuja was on Thursday in Aba.Subsequently, such clinics would be held in two different cities every month and those government agencies would be on hand to solve problems of business enterprises, take enquiries, explain government initiatives and educate the public about regulatory issues regarding MSMES in Nigeria.Having launched in Abuja, the Acting President said hedecided to personally attend the Clinic in Aba, “you can’t do much for manufacturing without coming to Aba,”  adding that Aba traders, artisans, tailors, shoemakers and others “are the bedrock of our economy.”He urged relevant FG agencies to see themselves as facilitators of the businesses and remove bottlenecks that are often reported when enterprises have something to do with the agencies.The Vice President went round the stands of all the agencies at the Aba MSMES Clinic and also those of several businesses and local manufacturers, all of whom were obviously elated at the Federal Government’s gesture to re-orient the relationship between them and the agencies.Commenting at the Clinic, the Abia State Governor, Dr. Okpezie Ikpeazu, who accompanied the Vice President said “with the visit of the Acting President to Abia today, the story of Aba traders will change. The visit of the Acting President is a testimony that something new is happening here.”Prof. Osinbajo was accompanied by the Industry, Trade and Investment Minister, Dr. Okey Enelamah, among several other senior government officials.Source: Government

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