Bauchi Assures Investors Of Policy Consistency

Chairman of the Bauchi Economic and Investment Summit Organising Committee, Professor Murtala Sagagi, has assured investors of the authorities government’s committedness to sustaining each economical frameworks and incentives introduced done the acme beyond the existent administration.
Speaking connected the sidelines of Bauchi Investment Summit, Professor Sagagi said Bauchi’s imaginable for concern was archetypal identified implicit a decennary agone by the UK Government, wherever helium served arsenic 1 of the consultants that promoted the authorities to planetary investors.

He announced that earlier the extremity of the year, the authorities authorities volition found the Bauchi Investment Promotion Agency, which volition service arsenic a one-stop centre to receive, facilitate, and enactment investors. The bureau volition beryllium backed by instrumentality to guarantee continuity careless of enactment changes.

On security, Professor Sagagi described Bauchi arsenic “the astir peaceful authorities successful Northern Nigeria,” noting that stableness and information stay the strongest attraction for investors.

Professor Sagagi besides introduced the Bauchi Investment for Growth (BIG) Project, which links large investments to tiny and mean enterprises, peculiarly those owned by women, to guarantee inclusiveness and occupation instauration astatine the grassroots.

Responding to questions connected argumentation sustainability, the Secretary to the State Government who is the co-chair Hon. Aminu Hammayo, explained that the authorities has developed a semipermanent position program from 2024 to 2033 supported by the UNDP to warrant argumentation consistency and organization stableness beyond 1 administration.

Another cardinal question raised during the briefing centered connected capitalist assurance and semipermanent extortion of incentives introduced done the summit.

The SSG further disclosed that the authorities is harmonizing its taxation strategy to simplify concern operations and promote backstage assemblage participation.

He besides highlighted efforts to fortify women and younker enterprises done cooperative groups, savings and indebtedness schemes, and SME programmes crossed section communities.

Both the president and the co-chair, assured that Bauchi’s economical thrust is guided by a wide semipermanent imaginativeness aimed astatine gathering a resilient, exertion driven, and capitalist affable economy.