– Lai Mohammed, who spoke in Abuja, said the federal government is not just paying lip service to the issue of made-in-Nigeria products
– Mohammed, a minister, added that the government has now decided to institutionalise the patronage of made-in-Nigeria products
The minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the federal government is institutionalizing the patronage of locally-made products starting with ministries, departments and agencies.
Speaking in Abuja on Thursday, May 18 at the National Media Launch of the ‘Buy Made-in-Nigeria’ campaign, Mohammed said: “The federal government is not just paying lip service to this buy made-in-Nigeria.
“We have taken concrete steps to actualize it.
“It is true that the Federal Executive Council at one of its meetings resolved that the Bureau of Public Procurement Act must be amended in a manner that will give more emphasis and advantage to made in Nigeria products.
Lai Mohammed said the government was acting its talk concerning made-in-Nigeria products
“However, we have also realized that less than 30 percent of government spending ever gets to the level of Bureau for Public Procurement, which means that we must start a ‘root and branch’ reform.
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“This campaign must go down to the level of permanent secretaries and ministerial approvals so that we can actually be able to encourage Nigerians, because as long as we do not encourage the buying of made-in-Nigeria products, what we are going to do is that we are going to continue exporting jobs to other countries and importing unemployment.”
Alhaji Mohammed emphasized that the youths cannot be gainfully employed across the country unless Nigerians change their consumption pattern by patronizing Made-in-Nigeria products in order to give a boost to the local economy.
He said the government is taking advantage of all the digital platforms on the Internet to connect with the youths and convince them to take ownership of the buy Made-in-Nigeria Campaign, in order to secure their future.
The minister said the federal government is committed
“The federal government is determined to ensure that we move at least 20 steps up the rank of world global standard of doing business and in the last couple of months, we have achieved some milestone.
“We have, for instance, been able to achieve 31 major reforms across 8 major indicators in the area of ‘Ease of Doing Business’, starting from movement of passengers and goods to the time it takes you to register a company,” he said.
He said the micro, small and medium nterprises (MSMEs) clinic taking place across the country is a deliberate strategy to make available all the stakeholders involved in MSMEs operations, with a view to easing all the bureaucratic bottlenecks to improve the performance of MSMEs.
In his remarks, the minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Okechukwu Enelamah, harped on the need to create a conducive environment for local manufacturers to thrive.
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“It’s one thing to say buy made-in-Nigeria, it’s another thing to make it easy for them to make things in Nigeria and to reduce the cost of making things in Nigeria.
“Consumers are rational and we are not necessarily forcing them.
“It’s a campaign so it means that one of the most important responsibilities we have as a people and as a government is to reduce the cost of doing business; to make the cost of producing things here cheaper and more affordable,” he said.
Meanwhile, the federal government has warned looters of the national treasury that there will be more prosecutions despite its successes in the anti-graft war.
This was made known by the minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed at the mid-term town-hall meeting of the federal government in Abuja on Tuesday, May 16.
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