Do Business, Not Marriage Ceremonies With SABER Funds, Zamfara Governor Tasks Beneficiaries

The Zamfara State governor, Dauda Lawal, has cautioned beneficiaries of the State Action connected Business, and Employment Reforms (SABER) funds to transmission the enactment into entrepreneurship and wealthiness instauration alternatively than marrying much wives and engaging successful different frivolous expenses.

The politician spoke connected Thursday during the authoritative flag-off of the programme successful Gusau, the State capital.

He described SABER arsenic a caller section successful the past of Zamfara State, stressing that it was not simply a backing inaugural but a reaffirmation of its unwavering resoluteness to alteration the authorities into a exemplary of reform, transparency, and shared prosperity.

According to him, SABER programme, supported by the World Bank with backing betwixt $20 cardinal and $52 cardinal from 2022 to 2026, was designed to dismantle barriers to investment, stimulate backstage enterprise, and make sustainable jobs.

He said it is being coordinated by the Ministry of Budget and Planning alongside cardinal agencies specified arsenic Commerce and Industry, ZAGIS, Finance, Housing, Justice, Agriculture, ZIDA, and the Internal Revenue Service.

“This programme is anchored connected subject and results, not promises. We person embraced the reforms with determination and delivered results with integrity.

“Zamfara met each eligibility criteria nether World Bank guidelines for 2023 and 2024, which enabled america to unafraid $9 cardinal by June 2025. This is not charity, it is the reward of our performance, discipline, and accountability,” Governor Lawal stated.

Lawal stated that achievements already recorded nether the programme, including digitisation of implicit 16,000 onshore registry files, streamlined entree to Certificates of Occupancy, and the constitution of SABER desks crossed captious sectors.

He added that Zamfara State had improved its gross illustration from N90 cardinal astatine the clip his medication took implicit to implicit N2.5 cardinal presently.

“Transparency present defines our taxation system. We are gathering a estimation for progress, resilience, reforms, and results. Very soon you volition statesman to spot the inflow of businesses into Zamfara,” helium added.

The politician announced that disbursement would chopped crossed micro, small, medium, and ample businesses successful the state, explaining that thousands of beneficiaries had been cautiously selected successful collaboration with authorities institutions and the backstage assemblage to guarantee fairness and impact.

He assured that the funds amounting to astir N1.1billion were acceptable for contiguous release, with beneficiaries expected to commencement receiving enactment without delay.

“This wealth is to empower you. Please, bash not spell and wed an further wife. Do business, marque wealth first. If you marque money, past you tin wed arsenic overmuch arsenic you want,” Governor Lawal counselled the beneficiaries.