Akwa Ibom Seeks Strengthening Of PPP With Small-Scale Industrialists For Growth

With the solution of the lingering enactment situation rocking the Akwa Ibom State section of the Nigerian Association of Small-Scale Industrialists (NASSI), the commissioner for Trade and Investment, Captain Iniobong Ekong (rtd), has stressed the request for a stronger Public-Private Partnership (PPP) to heighten the maturation of tiny businesses.

Addressing stakeholders during a gathering successful Uyo, the State capital, Captain Ekong described a beardown and vibrant NASSI arsenic pivotal to the occurrence of Governor Umo Eno’s ARISE Agenda blueprint connected entrepreneurship and tiny concern development.

“You cannot beryllium warring continuously from procreation to generation. There indispensable beryllium bid and dialogue, and that is what we person offered. I judge the agreements reached contiguous volition hold, and we are seeing a caller beginning,” the commissioner said.

He stressed that without a dynamic NASSI, efforts to beforehand entrepreneurship nether the ARISE Agenda would “fall level from the foundation. ” However, with the restoration of peace, the relation would present decently execute its mandate of establishing and sustaining tiny and medium-scale enterprises crossed the State.

The National President of NASSI, Dr Solomon Vongfa, lauded the Commissioner’s intervention, describing him arsenic a “peacemaker” whose maturity and committedness had restored harmony successful the troubled authorities chapter.

Also speaking, the peculiar adjunct to the politician connected Entrepreneurial Development, Meflyn Anwana, described the solution of the feud and restoration of bid astatine the gathering arsenic “historic.”

She urged stakeholders to clasp unity and cooperation, noting that lone a unchangeable and functional NASSI would presumption members to entree the galore authorities and national authorities grants and enactment packages disposable for small-scale industrialists.

Captain Ekong assured that portion the ministry would not interfere successful the association’s interior administration, it would proceed to workout supervisory oversight to guarantee steadfast relationships among stakeholders and foster a commercialized and concern ecosystem that promotes growth.

“What we privation to see, by the grace of God, is to permission this ministry overmuch healthier, much focused, and amended positioned than we met it,” helium added.

LEADERSHIP gathered that the situation solution aimed astatine repositioning NASSI successful Akwa Ibom “as a cardinal operator of entrepreneurship, occupation creation, and concern maturation successful enactment with the authorities government’s improvement vision.”